1 Samuel 2:34

2:34 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 3:12

3:12 On that day I will carry out ²  against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

1 Samuel 4:12

Eli Dies

4:12 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 10:9

Saul Becomes King

10:9 As Saul ⁴  turned ⁵  to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. ⁶  All these signs happened on that very day.

1 Samuel 11:13

11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

1 Samuel 14:18

14:18 So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ephod,” ⁷  for he was at that time wearing the ephod. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 14:37

14:37 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 20:19

20:19 On the third day ⁹  you should go down quickly ¹⁰  and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. ¹¹  Stay near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:26

20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it ¹²  that day, for he thought, ¹³  “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

1 Samuel 21:7

21:7 (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.)

1 Samuel 21:10

21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.

1 Samuel 27:6

27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

[2:34]  ¹ tn Heb “and this to you [is] the sign which will come to both of your sons.”

[3:12]  ² tn Or “fulfill.”

[4:12]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “the same day.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.f.

[10:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “turned his shoulder.”

[10:9]  ⁶ 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.”

[14:18]  ⁵ tc Heb “the ark of God.” It seems unlikely that Saul would call for the ark, which was several miles away in Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Sam 7:2). The LXX and an Old Latin ms have “ephod” here, a reading which harmonizes better with v. 3 and fits better with the verb “bring near” (see 1 Sam 23:9; 30:7) and with the expression “withdraw your hand” in v.19. This reading is followed in the present translation (cf. NAB, TEV, NLT).

[14:18]  ⁶ tc Heb “for the ark of God was in that day, and the sons of Israel.” The translation follows the text of some Greek manuscripts. See the previous note.

[20:19]  ⁶ tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).

[20:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.

[20:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.

[20:26]  ⁷ tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.

[20:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.