1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters ¹  his adversaries; ² 

he thunders against them from ³  the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen ⁴  his king

and exalt the power ⁵  of his anointed one.” ⁶ 

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 ⁷  and he will serve my chosen one for all time. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ⁹  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ¹⁰  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 ¹¹  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. ¹²  Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord’s chosen one.

[2:10]  ¹ 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]  ² 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]  ³ tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

[2:10]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

[2:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[2:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he will walk about before my anointed one all the days.”

[12:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”

[26:9]  ¹⁹ 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.”