1 Samuel 7:8

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!”

1 Samuel 8:12

8:12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, ⁴  as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.

1 Samuel 10:27

10:27 But some wicked men ⁵  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 23:9

23:9 When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, ⁷  he told Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod!”

[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.

[8:12]  ⁴ tc The numbers of v. 12 are confused in the Greek and Syriac versions. For “fifties” the LXX has “hundreds.” The Syriac Peshitta has “heads of thousands and heads of hundreds and heads of fifties and heads of tens,” perhaps reflecting influence from Deut 1:15.

[10:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).

[10:27]  ⁸ tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran ms of Samuel, which has here “about a month.” However, it seems best to stay with the MT here even though it is difficult.

[23:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Saul was planning the evil against him.”