1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ¹  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ²  “He is really hated ³  among his own people in ⁴  Israel! From now on ⁵  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 ⁶  from now on.” ⁷ 

[1:22]  ¹ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[27:12]  ² tn Heb “saying.”

[27:12]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

[27:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “permanently.”

[28:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

[28:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the days.”