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 6:6

6:6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? ⁵  When God ⁶  treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way? ⁷ 

1 Samuel 8:5

8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead ⁸  us, just like all the other nations have.”

1 Samuel 10:27

10:27 But some wicked men ⁹  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ¹⁰ 

1 Samuel 12:1

12:1 Samuel said to all Israel, “I have done ¹¹  everything you requested. ¹²  I have given you a king. ¹³ 

1 Samuel 14:17

14:17 So Saul said to the army that was with him, “Muster the troops and see who is no longer with us.” When they mustered the troops, ¹⁴  Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

1 Samuel 14:43

14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 15:20

15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed ¹⁶  the Lord! I went on the campaign ¹⁷  the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:23-24

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as ¹⁸  king.”

15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the Lord commanded ¹⁹  and what you said as well. ²⁰  For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. ²¹ 

1 Samuel 16:3

16:3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out ²²  to you.”

1 Samuel 16:23

16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. ²³ 

1 Samuel 17:23

17:23 As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ²⁴  and David heard it.

1 Samuel 18:30

18:30 ²⁵  Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.

1 Samuel 19:23

19:23 So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. The Spirit of God came upon him as well, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

1 Samuel 20:1

Jonathan Seeks to Protect David

20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, ²⁶  “What have I done? What is my offense? ²⁷  How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!”

1 Samuel 20:9

20:9 Jonathan said, “Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you about it?”

1 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ²⁸  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ²⁹ 

1 Samuel 22:9

22:9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, “I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

1 Samuel 24:12

24:12 May the Lord judge between the two of us, and may the Lord vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 24:18-19

24:18 You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me. 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 25:15

25:15 These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together ³⁰  in the field.

1 Samuel 28:21

28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, “Your servant has done what you asked. ³¹  I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me. ³² 

1 Samuel 31:3

31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ³³  the archers ³⁴  spotted him and wounded him severely.

[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.”

[6:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”

[6:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”

[8:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).

[10:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).

[10:27]  ¹⁰ 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.

[12:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Look, I have listened to your voice.”

[12:1]  ¹² tn Heb “to all which you said to me.”

[12:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I have installed a king over you.”

[14:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they mustered the troops, and look!”

[14:43]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

[15:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “journey.”

[15:23]  ¹⁸ tn Or “from [being].”

[15:24]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[15:24]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and your words.”

[15:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “and I listened to their voice.”

[16:3]  ²² tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”

[16:23]  ²³ tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”

[17:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “according to these words.”

[18:30]  ²⁵ tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX mss.

[20:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he came and said before Jonathan.”

[20:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “What is my guilt?”

[21:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “servants.”

[21:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”

[25:15]  ³⁰ tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”

[28:21]  ³¹ tn Heb “listened to your voice.”

[28:21]  ³² tn Heb “listened to your words that you spoke to me.”

[31:3]  ³³ tn Heb “and the battle was heavy against Saul.”

[31:3]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the shooters, men with the bow.”