1 Samuel 3:21

3:21 Then the Lord again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the Lord had revealed himself to Samuel ¹  through the word of the Lord. ² 

1 Samuel 14:44

14:44 Saul said, “God will punish me severely if Jonathan doesn’t die!” ³ 

1 Samuel 20:17

20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 27:4

27:4 When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

1 Samuel 7:13

7:13 So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

1 Samuel 18:29

18:29 Saul became even more afraid of him. ⁵  Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 19:8

19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly ⁷  and they ran away from him.

1 Samuel 19:21

19:21 When it was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they prophesied too. So Saul sent messengers a third time, but they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 23:4

23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 25:22

25:22 God will severely punish David, ⁸  if I leave alive until morning even one male ⁹  from all those who belong to him!”

1 Samuel 3:6

3:6 The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli ¹⁰  said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”

1 Samuel 3:8

3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

1 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Eli ¹¹  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ¹²  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 9:8

9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel ¹³  of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 12:19

12:19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ¹⁶  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 20:13

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 ¹⁷  and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. ¹⁸  May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

[3:21]  ¹ tc The LXX has a lengthy addition here: “And Samuel was acknowledged to be a prophet of the Lord in all Israel, from one end to the other. Eli was very old and, as for his sons, their way kept getting worse and worse before the Lord.” The Hebraic nature of the Greek syntax used here suggests that the LXX translator was accurately rendering a Hebrew variant and not simply expanding the text on his own initiative.

[3:21]  ² tn The chapter division at this point is inappropriate. 1 Sam 4:1a is best understood as the conclusion to chap. 3 rather than the beginning of chap. 4.

[14:44]  ³ tn Heb “So God will do and so he will add, surely you will certainly die, Jonathan.”

[20:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”

[18:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “of David.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.

[18:29]  ⁸ tc The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX mss.

[19:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”

[25:22]  ¹¹ tc Heb “Thus God will do to the enemies of David and thus he will add.” Most of the Old Greek ms tradition has simply “David,” with no reference to his enemies. In OT imprecations such as the one found in v. 22 it is common for the speaker to direct malediction toward himself as an indication of the seriousness with which he regards the matter at hand. In other words, the speaker invites on himself dire consequences if he fails to fulfill the matter expressed in the oath. However, in the situation alluded to in v. 22 the threat actually does not come to fruition due to the effectiveness of Abigail’s appeal to David in behalf of her husband Nabal. Instead, David is placated through Abigail’s intervention. It therefore seems likely that the reference to “the enemies of David” in the MT of v. 22 is the result of a scribal attempt to deliver David from the implied consequences of this oath. The present translation follows the LXX rather than the MT here.

[25:22]  ¹² tn Heb “one who urinates against a wall” (also in v. 34); KJV “any that pisseth against the wall.”

[3:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ¹⁶ 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.”

[9:8]  ¹⁷ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

[9:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “our way.”

[12:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”

[15:35]  ²¹ tn That is, Samuel.

[20:13]  ²³ tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

[20:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in peace.”