1 Samuel 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel ¹  and how they used to have sex with ²  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:25

2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons ³  would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided ⁴  to kill them.

1 Samuel 3:9

3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.

1 Samuel 4:6

4:6 When the Philistines heard the sound of the shout, they said, “What is this loud shout in the camp of the Hebrews?” Then they realized that the ark of the Lord had arrived at the camp.

1 Samuel 4:19

4:19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.

1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ⁵  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 9:27

9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. ⁶  Samuel then said, ⁷  “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”

1 Samuel 12:14

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ⁸  and not rebelling against what he says, ⁹  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 14:27

14:27 But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, ¹¹  his eyes gleamed. ¹² 

1 Samuel 15:20

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed ¹³  the Lord! I went on the campaign ¹⁴  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 22:6-7

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ¹⁵  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him. 22:7 Saul said to his servants who were stationed around him, “Listen up, you Benjaminites! Is Jesse’s son giving fields and vineyards to all of you? Or is he making all of you ¹⁶  commanders and officers? ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 25:7

25:7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 28:18

28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord ¹⁸  and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

[2:22]  ² tn Heb “lie with.”

[2:25]  ³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “desired.”

[8:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

[9:27]  ⁷ tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin ms, and the Syriac Peshitta.

[9:27]  ⁸ tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[12:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

[12:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

[12:14]  ¹¹ tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

[14:27]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

[15:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “journey.”

[22:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[22:7]  ¹⁷ tc The MT has “to all of you.” If this reading is correct, we have here an example of a prepositional phrase functioning as the equivalent of a dative of advantage, which is not impossible from a grammatical point of view. However, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate all have “and.” A conjunction rather than a preposition should probably be read on the front of this phrase.

[22:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “officers of a thousand and officers of a hundred.”

[28:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord.”