1 Samuel 1:21

Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the Lord

1:21 This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,

1 Samuel 2:32

2:32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! ¹  Israel will experience blessings, ²  but there will not be an old man in your ³  house for all time. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 15:18

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ⁵  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ⁶  have destroyed them.’

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ⁷  died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 22:3

22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay ⁸  with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

1 Samuel 24:19

24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ⁹  “He is really hated ¹⁰  among his own people in ¹¹  Israel! From now on ¹²  he will be my servant.”

1 Samuel 28:2

28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard ¹³  from now on.” ¹⁴ 

[2:32]  ¹ tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).

[2:32]  ² tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”

[2:32]  ³ tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.

[2:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the days.”

[15:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ⁶ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

[15:35]  ⁷ tn That is, Samuel.

[22:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “go forth.”

[27:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

[27:12]  ¹¹ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ¹² tn Heb “permanently.”

[28:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

[28:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “all the days.”