1 Samuel 2:29

2:29 Why are you ¹  scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? ²  You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’

1 Samuel 9:21

9:21 Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”

1 Samuel 11:5

11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the ³  oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about ⁴  the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 14:39

14:39 For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 15:12

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ⁶  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ⁷  and went down to Gilgal.” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 19:3

19:3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are. I will speak about you to my father. When I find out what the problem is, ⁹  I will let you know.”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ¹⁰  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ¹¹  large or small without making me aware of it. ¹²  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 23:13

23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹³  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

1 Samuel 23:25

23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹⁴  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

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 25:24

25:24 Falling at his feet, she said, “My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak with my lord! Please listen to the words of your servant!

[2:29]  ¹ tc The MT has a plural “you” here, but the LXX and a Qumran ms have the singular. The singular may be the correct reading; the verb “you have honored” later in the verse is singular even in the MT. However, it is more probable that the Lord here refers to Eli and his sons. Note the plural in the second half of the verse (“you have made yourselves fat”).

[2:29]  ² tn Heb “which I commanded, dwelling place.” The noun is functioning as an adverbial accusative in relation to the verb. Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation.

[11:5]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

[11:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the matters of.”

[14:39]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there was no one answering from all the army.”

[15:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ⁹ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[19:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “when I see.”

[20:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[23:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “they went where they went.”

[23:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to search.”