1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 4:5

4:5 When the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly ²  that the ground shook.

1 Samuel 4:10

4:10 So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. ³  The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ⁴  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 14:33

14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! ⁶  Roll a large stone over here to me.”

1 Samuel 19:8

19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly ⁷  and they ran away from him.

1 Samuel 4:17

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from ⁸  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ⁹  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ¹⁰  with sores. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 6:14

6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

1 Samuel 6:19

6:19 But the Lord ¹²  struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 ¹³  of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life ¹⁴  when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 23:5

23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. ¹⁵  David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

[2:17]  ¹ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

[4:5]  ² tn Heb “shouted [with] a great shout.”

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”

[14:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “and look, there was”

[14:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

[14:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.

[19:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”

[4:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “before.”

[5:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ¹⁰ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[6:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:19]  ¹⁰ tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew mss lack “50,000,” reading simply “70” instead. However, there does not seem to be sufficient external evidence to warrant reading 70 rather than 50,070, although that is done by a number of recent translations (e.g., NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). The present translation (reluctantly) follows the MT and the ancient versions here.

[19:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

[23:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”