1 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Eli ¹  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ²  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ³  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene ⁵  for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

1 Samuel 17:25-26

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ⁶  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? ⁷  For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ⁸  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ⁹  large or small without making me aware of it. ¹⁰  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 20:13

20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know ¹¹  and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. ¹²  May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

1 Samuel 22:3

22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay ¹³  with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

1 Samuel 25:28

25:28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

1 Samuel 28:2

28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard ¹⁴  from now on.” ¹⁵ 

[3:17]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ² tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

[11:7]  ³ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “like one man.”

[14:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “act.”

[17:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[17:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”

[20:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ¹² tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[20:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

[20:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in peace.”

[22:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “go forth.”

[28:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

[28:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “all the days.”