1 Samuel 6:5

6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice ¹  that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. ² 

1 Samuel 7:1

7:1 Then the people ³  of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:15

7:15 So Samuel led ⁴  Israel all the days of his life.

1 Samuel 12:9

12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave ⁵  them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s ⁶  army, ⁷  and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 14:43

14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” ⁸ 

1 Samuel 15:30

15:30 Saul ⁹  again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”

1 Samuel 18:23

18:23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately ¹⁰  to David. David replied, “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”

1 Samuel 20:5

20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. ¹¹  You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.

1 Samuel 20:34

20:34 Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David. ¹² 

1 Samuel 22:18

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.

1 Samuel 25:17

25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. ¹⁴  He is such a wicked person ¹⁵  that no one tells him anything!”

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “men.”

[7:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “judged” (also in v. 17).

[12:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”

[12:9]  ⁸ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[12:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”

[14:43]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

[15:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the ears of.”

[20:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:34]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for he was upset concerning David for his father had humiliated him.” The referent of the pronoun “him” is not entirely clear, but the phrase “concerning David” suggests that it refers to David, rather than Jonathan.

[22:18]  ¹⁹ 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.

[25:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

[25:17]  ²² tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”