1 Samuel 16:6

16:6 When they arrived, Samuel ¹  noticed ²  Eliab and said to himself, ³  “Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!” ⁴ 

1 Samuel 24:6

24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, ⁵  by extending my hand against him. After all, ⁶  he is the Lord’s chosen one.” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters ⁸  his adversaries; ⁹ 

he thunders against them from ¹⁰  the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen ¹¹  his king

and exalt the power ¹²  of his anointed one.” ¹³ 

1 Samuel 2:35

2:35 Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty ¹⁴  and he will serve my chosen one for all time. ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ¹⁶  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ¹⁷  They said, “He is witness!”

1 Samuel 26:9

26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one ¹⁸  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. ¹⁹  Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord’s chosen one.

1 Samuel 12:3

12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. ²⁰  Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, ²¹  and I will return it to you!”

1 Samuel 24:10

24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity ²²  on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ ²³ 

1 Samuel 26:11

26:11 But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord’s chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul’s head and the jug of water, and let’s get out of here!”

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ²⁴  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ²⁵  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

[16:6]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:6]  ² tn Heb “saw.”

[16:6]  ³ tn Heb “said”; the words “to himself” are implied, given the secrecy surrounding Samuel’s mission to Bethlehem (v. 2).

[16:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “his anointed one.”

[24:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “anointed.”

[24:6]  ⁶ tn Or “for.”

[24:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “anointed.”

[2:10]  ⁹ tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:10]  ¹⁰ tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

[2:10]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

[2:10]  ¹² tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

[2:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

[2:10]  ¹⁴ tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

[2:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “house.”

[2:35]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he will walk about before my anointed one all the days.”

[12:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

[26:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “anointed” (also in vv. 11, 16, 23).

[26:23]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

[12:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:3]  ³⁰ tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:10]  ³³ tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.

[24:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “anointed.”

[26:16]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ³⁸ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”