1 Samuel 3:15

3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

1 Samuel 11:12

Saul Is Established as King

11:12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who were the ones asking, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Hand over those men so we may execute them!”

1 Samuel 12:7

12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you ¹  before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors. ² 

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ³  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ⁴  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ⁵  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 18:19

18:19 When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ⁶  David and his men in the region of ⁷  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 24:19

24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.

1 Samuel 24:21

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ⁹  that you will not kill ¹⁰  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

1 Samuel 25:20

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

1 Samuel 30:3

30:3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. ¹¹  Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”

[16:4]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ³ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

[24:2]  ¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ³ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[24:21]  ¹ tn Heb “by the Lord.”

[24:21]  ² tn Heb “cut off.”

[30:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”