1 Samuel 2:33

2:33 Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your ¹  eyes to fail ²  and will cause you grief. ³  All of those born to your family ⁴  will die in the prime of life. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 10:9

Saul Becomes King

10:9 As Saul ⁶  turned ⁷  to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. ⁸  All these signs happened on that very day.

1 Samuel 20:15

20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

1 Samuel 20:33

20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan ⁹  in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced ¹⁰  that his father had decided to kill David.

[2:33]  ¹ tc The LXX, a Qumran ms, and a few old Latin mss have the third person pronominal suffix “his” here.

[2:33]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “and to cause your soul grief.”

[2:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “and all the increase of your house.”

[2:33]  ⁵ 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.

[10:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”

[10:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “God turned for him another heart”; NAB, NRSV “gave him another heart”; NIV, NCV “changed Saul’s heart”; TEV “gave Saul a new nature”; CEV “made Saul feel like a different person.”

[20:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:33]  ¹² tn Heb “knew.”