1 Samuel 1:19

1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with ¹  his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered ²  her.

1 Samuel 2:1

Hannah Exalts the Lord in Prayer

2:1 Hannah prayed, ³ 

“My heart rejoices in the Lord;

my horn ⁴  is exalted high because of the Lord.

I loudly denounce ⁵  my enemies,

for I am happy that you delivered me. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters ⁷  his adversaries; ⁸ 

he thunders against them from ⁹  the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen ¹⁰  his king

and exalt the power ¹¹  of his anointed one.” ¹² 

1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹³  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:21

2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 3:1

The Call of Samuel

3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. ¹⁵  Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

1 Samuel 10:22

10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” ¹⁶ 

1 Samuel 12:22

12:22 The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. ¹⁷  The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ¹⁸ 

1 Samuel 15:13

15:13 When Samuel came to him, ¹⁹  Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

1 Samuel 15:22

15:22 Then Samuel said,

“Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as he does in obedience? ²⁰ 

Certainly, ²¹  obedience ²²  is better than sacrifice;

paying attention is better than ²³  the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

1 Samuel 16:2

16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you ²⁴  and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

1 Samuel 17:47

17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”

1 Samuel 23:2

23:2 So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”

1 Samuel 23:4

23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23:11

23:11 Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!”

Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”

1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

1 Samuel 28:17

28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! ²⁵  The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

[1:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.

[1:19]  ² sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.

[2:1]  ³ tn Heb “prayed and said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.

[2:1]  ⁴ sn Horns of animals have always functioned as both offensive and defensive weapons for them. As a figure of speech the horn is therefore often used in the Bible as a symbol of human strength (see also in v. 10). The allusion in v. 1 to the horn being lifted high suggests a picture of an animal elevating its head in a display of strength or virility.

[2:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “my mouth opens wide against.”

[2:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “for I rejoice in your deliverance.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:10]  ⁸ tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

[2:10]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

[2:10]  ¹⁰ tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

[2:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

[2:10]  ¹² tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

[2:10]  sn The anointed one is the anticipated king of Israel, as the preceding line makes clear.

[2:17]  ¹³ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

[2:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “with the Lord.” Cf. NAB, TEV “in the service of the Lord”; NIV, NRSV, NLT “in the presence of the Lord”; CEV “at the Lord’s house in Shiloh.”

[3:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “before Eli.”

[10:22]  ¹⁶ tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”

[12:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “on account of his great name.”

[15:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

[15:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to Saul.”

[15:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “as [in] listening to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “look.”

[15:22]  ²² tn Heb “listening.”

[15:22]  ²³ tn The expression “is better” is understood here by ellipsis (see the immediately preceding statement).

[16:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “in your hand.”

[28:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”