1 Samuel 2:9

2:9 He watches over ¹  his holy ones, ² 

but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,

for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

1 Samuel 2:24

2:24 This ought not to be, ³  my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

1 Samuel 3:2

3:2 Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

1 Samuel 3:19

3:19 Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 4:15

4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; ⁵  he was unable to see.

1 Samuel 5:12

5:12 The people ⁶  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

1 Samuel 8:3

8:3 But his sons did not follow ⁷  his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 8:19

8:19 But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. ⁹  Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

1 Samuel 15:19

15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed ¹⁰  the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 16:9

16:9 Then Jesse presented ¹²  Shammah. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.”

1 Samuel 18:2

18:2 Saul retained David ¹³  on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

1 Samuel 20:39

20:39 (Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.) ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 24:12-13

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. 24:13 It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 25:19

25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

1 Samuel 27:4

27:4 When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

1 Samuel 28:6

28:6 So Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him – not by dreams nor by Urim ¹⁵  nor by the prophets.

1 Samuel 29:7

29:7 So turn and leave ¹⁶  in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!” ¹⁷ 

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “guards the feet of.” The expression means that God watches over and protects the godly in all of their activities and movements. The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:9]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the plural (“his holy ones”) rather than the singular (“his holy one”) of the Kethib.

[2:24]  ³ tn Heb “no.”

[3:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he did not cause to fall from all his words to the ground.”

[4:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “were set” or “were fixed,” i.e., without vision.

[5:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “men.”

[8:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk in” (also in v. 5).

[8:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they turned aside after unjust gain and took bribes and perverted justice.”

[8:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel.”

[15:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[16:9]  ¹² tn Heb “caused to pass by.”

[18:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:39]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “knew the matter.”

[28:6]  ¹⁵ sn See the note at 1 Sam 14:41.

[29:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “go.”

[29:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and you must not do evil in the eyes of the leaders of the Philistines.”