1 Samuel 2:34
Context2:34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, 1 Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!
1 Samuel 3:1
Context3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. 2 Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.
1 Samuel 4:12
Context4:12 On that day 3 a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.
1 Samuel 5:5
Context5:5 (For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.)
1 Samuel 13:8
Context13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. 4 But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. 5
1 Samuel 14:37
Context14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 20:26
Context20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it 6 that day, for he thought, 7 “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”
1 Samuel 21:7
Context21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)


[2:34] 1 tn Heb “and this to you [is] the sign which will come to both of your sons.”
[4:12] 3 tn Or perhaps, “the same day.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.f.
[13:8] 4 tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.
[13:8] 5 tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”
[20:26] 5 tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.