1 Samuel 4:2

4:2 The Philistines arranged their forces to fight ¹  Israel. As the battle spread out, ²  Israel was defeated by ³  the Philistines, who ⁴  killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

1 Samuel 4:11

4:11 The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

1 Samuel 4:17-20

4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from ⁵  the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”

4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli ⁶  fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he ⁷  was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

4:19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her. 4:20 As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ⁹  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 22:17-20

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ¹⁰  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ¹¹  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ¹²  the priests of the Lord.

22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five ¹³  men who wore the linen ephod. 22:19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.

22:20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ¹⁴  learned about it, they went down there to him.

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 ¹⁵  reveal myself to your ancestor’s ¹⁶  house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?

1 Samuel 2:35

2:35 Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty ¹⁷  and he will serve my chosen one for all time. ¹⁸ 

Job 22:9

22:9 you sent widows away empty-handed,

and the arms ¹⁹  of the orphans you crushed. ²⁰ 

Psalms 37:17

37:17 for evil men will lose their power, ²¹ 

but the Lord sustains ²²  the godly.

Ezekiel 30:21-24

30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm ²³  of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ²⁴  Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword. 30:22 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, ²⁵  I am against ²⁶  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand. 30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries. 30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. ²⁷ 

Ezekiel 44:10

44:10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for ²⁸  their sin.

[4:2]  ¹ tn Heb “to meet.”

[4:2]  ² tn The MT has וַתִּטֹּשׁ (vattittosh), from the root נטשׁ (ntsh). This verb normally means “to leave,” “to forsake,” or “to permit,” but such an idea does not fit this context very well. Many scholars have suspected that the text originally read either וַתֵּט (vattet, “and it spread out”), from the root נטה (nth), or וַתִּקֶשׁ (vattiqesh, “and it grew fierce”), from the root קשׂה (qsh). The former suggestion is apparently supported by the LXX ἔκλινεν (eklinen, “it inclined”) and is adopted in the translation.

[4:2]  ³ tn Heb “before.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Philistines, and they killed.” The pronoun “they” has been translated as a relative pronoun (“who”) to make it clear to the English reader that the Philistines were the ones who did the killing.

[4:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “before.”

[4:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “the man.”

[4:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “and she did not set her heart.”

[14:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ¹² tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[22:18]  ¹³ tc The number is confused in the Greek ms tradition. The LXX, with the exception of the Lucianic recension, has the number 305. The Lucianic recension, along with a couple of Old Latin mss, has the number 350.

[22:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[2:27]  ¹⁵ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[2:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to your father’s” (also in vv. 28, 30).

[2:35]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[2:35]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he will walk about before my anointed one all the days.”

[22:9]  ¹⁹ tn The “arms of the orphans” are their helps or rights on which they depended for support.

[22:9]  ²⁰ tn The verb in the text is Pual: יְדֻכָּא (yÿdukka’, “was [were] crushed”). GKC 388 §121.b would explain “arms” as the complement of a passive imperfect. But if that is too difficult, then a change to Piel imperfect, second person, will solve the difficulty. In its favor is the parallelism, the use of the second person all throughout the section, and the reading in all the versions. The versions may have simply assumed the easier reading, however.

[37:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “for the arms of the evil ones will be broken.”

[37:17]  ²² tn The active participle here indicates this is characteristically true.

[30:21]  ²³ sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).

[30:21]  ²⁴ sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.

[30:22]  ²⁵ tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[30:22]  ²⁶ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[30:24]  ²⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[44:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “will bear.”