1 Samuel 22:20-22

22:20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar. 22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. 22:22 Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty ¹  of all the deaths in your father’s house!

1 Samuel 23:6

David Eludes Saul Again

23:6 Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod. ² 

1 Samuel 23:9

23:9 When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, ³  he told Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod!”

1 Samuel 23:2

23:2 So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”

1 Samuel 8:17

8:17 He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

1 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the Lord commanded ⁴  and what you said as well. ⁵  For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 15:29

15:29 The Preeminent One ⁷  of Israel does not go back on his word ⁸  or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.” ⁹ 

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ¹⁰  died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 20:25

20:25 The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him ¹¹  and Abner at his side. ¹²  But David’s place was vacant.

1 Samuel 20:1

Jonathan Seeks to Protect David

20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, ¹³  “What have I done? What is my offense? ¹⁴  How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!”

1 Samuel 1:7

1:7 Peninnah ¹⁵  would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah ¹⁶  went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah ¹⁷  would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

1 Samuel 1:1

Hannah Gives Birth to Samuel

1:1 There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, ¹⁸  from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel ¹⁹  and how they used to have sex with ²⁰  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:26-27

2:26 Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

The Lord Judges the House of Eli

2:27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not plainly ²¹  reveal myself to your ancestor’s ²²  house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army ²³  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

[22:22]  ¹ tc The translation follows the LXX, which reads “I am guilty,” rather than the MT, which has “I have turned.”

[23:6]  ² tn Heb “an ephod went down in his hand.”

[23:9]  ³ tn Heb “Saul was planning the evil against him.”

[15:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[15:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “and your words.”

[15:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I listened to their voice.”

[15:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “splendor,” used here by metonymy as a title for the Lord.

[15:29]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “does not lie.”

[15:29]  ⁹ sn This observation marks the preceding statement (v. 28) as an unconditional, unalterable decree. When God makes such a decree he will not alter it or change his mind. This does not mean that God never deviates from his stated intentions or changes his mind. On the contrary, several passages describe him as changing his mind. In fact, his willingness to do so is one of his fundamental divine attributes (see Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2). For a fuller discussion see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Change His Mind?” BSac 152 (1995): 387-99.

[15:35]  ¹⁰ tn That is, Samuel.

[20:25]  ¹¹ tc Heb “and Jonathan arose.” Instead of MT’s וַיָּקָם (vayyaqam, “and he arose”; from the hollow verbal root קוּם, qum), the translation assumes a reading וַיִּקַדֵּם (vayyiqaddem, “and he was in front of”; from the verbal root קדם, qdm). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.

[20:25]  ¹² tn Heb “and Abner sat at the side of Saul.”

[20:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he came and said before Jonathan.”

[20:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “What is my guilt?”

[1:7]  ¹⁵ tn The MT has a masculine form of the verb here יַעֲשֶׂה (ya’aseh, “he used to do”); the subject in that case would presumably be Elkanah. But this leads to an abrupt change of subject in the following part of the verse, where the subject is the rival wife who caused Hannah anxiety. In light of v. 6 one expects the statement of v. 7 to refer to the ongoing actions of the rival wife: “she used to behave in this way year after year.” Some scholars have proposed retaining the masculine form but changing the vocalization of the verb so as to read a Niphal rather than a Qal (i.e., יֵעֲשֶׂה, ye’aseh, “so it used to be done”). But the problem here is lack of precedent for such a use of the Niphal of this verb. It seems best in light of the context to understand the reference to be to Hannah’s rival Peninnah and to read here, with the Syriac Peshitta, a feminine form of the verb (“she used to do”). In the translation the referent (Peninnah) has been specified for clarity.

[1:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Hannah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Peninnah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:1]  ¹⁸ tc The translation follows the MT. The LXX reads “a man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite”; this is followed by a number of recent English translations. It is possible the MT reading צוֹפִים (tsofim) arose from dittography of the mem (מ) at the beginning of the following word.

[2:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

[2:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “lie with.”

[2:27]  ²¹ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:27]  ²² tn Heb “to your father’s” (also in vv. 28, 30).

[4:4]  ²³ tn Or “people.”