1 Samuel 7:8-9

7:8 The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep ¹  crying out to the Lord our ²  God so that he may save us ³  from the hand of the Philistines!” 7:9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb ⁴  and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.

1 Samuel 8:18

8:18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” ⁵ 

1 Samuel 14:20

14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found ⁶  the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 28:12

28:12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly. ⁸  The woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

1 Samuel 4:13

4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of ⁹  the road, for he was very worried ¹⁰  about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, ¹¹  the whole city cried out.

1 Samuel 5:10

5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ¹²  to kill our ¹³  people!”

1 Samuel 12:8

12:8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

1 Samuel 12:10

12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ¹⁴  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ¹⁵  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ¹⁶ 

1 Samuel 15:11

15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “don’t stop.”

[7:8]  ² tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”

[7:8]  ³ tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.”

[8:18]  ⁷ tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”

[14:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and look, there was”

[14:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”

[28:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “in a great voice.”

[4:13]  ¹⁶ tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).

[4:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”

[4:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”

[5:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “my.”

[12:10]  ²² tn Heb “and said.”

[12:10]  ²³ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.

[12:10]  ²⁴ tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.