1 Samuel 4:13

4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of ¹  the road, for he was very worried ²  about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, ³  the whole city cried out.

1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

1 Samuel 9:6

9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. ⁴  Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 9:8

9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel ⁶  of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 15:20

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed ⁸  the Lord! I went on the campaign ⁹  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ¹⁰  They chased the Philistines to the valley ¹¹  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 21:5

21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ¹²  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

1 Samuel 24:3

24:3 He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. ¹³ 

Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.

1 Samuel 26:3

26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ¹⁴  him,

1 Samuel 26:25

26:25 Saul replied to David, “May you be rewarded, ¹⁵  my son David! You will without question be successful!” ¹⁶  So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

[4:13]  ¹ tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).

[4:13]  ² tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”

[4:13]  ³ tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”

[9:6]  ⁴ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

[9:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”

[9:8]  ⁷ sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).

[9:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “our way.”

[15:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “journey.”

[17:52]  ¹³ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

[17:52]  ¹⁴ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

[21:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “servants’.”

[24:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).

[26:3]  ²² tn Heb “after.”

[26:25]  ²⁵ tn Heb “blessed.”

[26:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “you will certainly do and also you will certainly be able.” The infinitive absolutes placed before the finite verbal forms lend emphasis to the statement.