1 Samuel 2:30-36

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say ¹  that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve ²  me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! ³  For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed! 2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength ⁴  and the strength ⁵  of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house! 2:32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! ⁶  Israel will experience blessings, ⁷  but there will not be an old man in your ⁸  house for all time. ⁹  2:33 Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your ¹⁰  eyes to fail ¹¹  and will cause you grief. ¹²  All of those born to your family ¹³  will die in the prime of life. ¹⁴  2:34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, ¹⁵  Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die! 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 ¹⁶  and he will serve my chosen one for all time. ¹⁷  2:36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money ¹⁸  and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”

1 Samuel 15:28

15:28 Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ¹⁹ 

1 Samuel 14:7-8

14:7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do everything that is on your mind. ²⁰  Do as you’re inclined. I’m with you all the way!” ²¹ 

14:8 Jonathan replied, “All right! ²²  We’ll go over to these men and fight them.

1 Samuel 14:14

14:14 In this initial skirmish Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area that measured half an acre.

Psalms 113:7-8

113:7 He raises the poor from the dirt,

and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, ²³ 

113:8 that he might seat him with princes,

with the princes of his people.

Daniel 5:28-31

5:28 As for peres ²⁴  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

5:29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, ²⁵  Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom. 5:30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, ²⁶  was killed. ²⁷  5:31 (6:1) ²⁸  So Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old.

[2:30]  ¹ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:30]  ² tn Heb “walk about before.”

[2:30]  ³ tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”

[2:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.

[2:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “arm.”

[2:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).

[2:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”

[2:32]  ⁸ tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.

[2:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “all the days.”

[2:33]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss have the third person pronominal suffix “his” here.

[2:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to cause your eyes to fail.” Elsewhere this verb, when used of eyes, refers to bloodshot eyes resulting from weeping, prolonged staring, or illness (see Lev 26:16; Pss 69:3; 119:82; Lam 2:11; 4:17).

[2:33]  ¹² tn Heb “and to cause your soul grief.”

[2:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “and all the increase of your house.”

[2:33]  ¹⁴ tc The text is difficult. The MT literally says “they will die [as] men.” Apparently the meaning is that they will be cut off in the prime of their life without reaching old age. The LXX and a Qumran ms, however, have the additional word “sword” (“they will die by the sword of men”). This is an easier reading (cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT), but that fact is not in favor of its originality.

[2:34]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and this to you [is] the sign which will come to both of your sons.”

[2:35]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “house.”

[2:35]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he will walk about before my anointed one all the days.”

[2:36]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[15:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

[14:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in your heart.”

[14:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “Look, I am with you, according to your heart.” See the note at 13:14.

[14:8]  ²² tn Heb “Look!”

[113:7]  ²³ sn The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.

[5:28]  ²⁴ sn Peres (פְּרֵס) is the singular form of פַרְסִין (pharsin) in v. 25.

[5:29]  ²⁵ tn Aram “Belshazzar spoke.”

[5:30]  ²⁶ tn Aram “king of the Chaldeans.”

[5:30]  ²⁷ sn The year was 539 B.C. At this time Daniel would have been approximately eighty-one years old. The relevant extra-biblical records describing the fall of Babylon include portions of Herodotus, Xenophon, Berossus (cited in Josephus), the Cyrus Cylinder, and the Babylonian Chronicle.

[5:31]  ²⁸ sn Beginning with 5:31, the verse numbers through 6:28 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 5:31 ET = 6:1 AT, 6:1 ET = 6:2 AT, 6:2 ET = 6:3 AT, 6:3 ET = 6:4 AT, etc., through 6:28 ET = 6:29 AT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Aramaic text are again the same.