1 Samuel 1:15

1:15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, ¹  my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. ²  I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to ³  the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:26

1:26 She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

1 Samuel 3:9

3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.

1 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ⁴  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

1 Samuel 5:9

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ⁵  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ⁶  with sores. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 7:12

7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. ⁸  He named it Ebenezer, ⁹  saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

1 Samuel 7:17

7:17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged ¹⁰  Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.

1 Samuel 8:7

8:7 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do everything the people request of you. ¹¹  For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

1 Samuel 8:18

8:18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” ¹² 

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say ¹³  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

1 Samuel 9:17

9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, ¹⁴  “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.”

1 Samuel 10:6

10:6 Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.

1 Samuel 10:24

10:24 Then Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one whom the Lord has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!” All the people shouted out, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 12:11

12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, ¹⁵  Barak, ¹⁶  Jephthah, and Samuel, ¹⁷  and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

1 Samuel 12:23-24

12:23 As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright. 12:24 However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

1 Samuel 13:12

13:12 I thought, ¹⁸  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ¹⁹  to offer the burnt offering.”

1 Samuel 14:3

14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying ²⁰  an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 14:10

14:10 But if they say, ‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the Lord has given them into our hand – it will be a sign to us.”

1 Samuel 14:33

14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! ²¹  Roll a large stone over here to me.”

1 Samuel 14:39

14:39 For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. ²² 

1 Samuel 15:2

15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ²³  Israel along the way when Israel ²⁴  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the Lord commanded ²⁵  and what you said as well. ²⁶  For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. ²⁷ 

1 Samuel 15:28

15:28 Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!

1 Samuel 15:35

15:35 Until the day he ²⁸  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 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ²⁹  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ³⁰  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ³¹  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 16:10

16:10 Jesse presented seven of his sons to Samuel. ³²  But Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any of these.”

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ³³  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

1 Samuel 19:9

19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon ³⁴  Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. ³⁵ 

1 Samuel 26:9

26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one ³⁶  and remain guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ³⁷  in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 26:24

26:24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, ³⁸  may the Lord value my life ³⁹  and deliver me from all danger.”

1 Samuel 30:26

30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah who were his friends, saying, “Here’s a gift ⁴⁰  for you from the looting of the Lord’s enemies!”

[1:15]  ¹ tn Heb “No.”

[1:15]  ² tn Heb “I am a woman difficult of spirit.” The LXX has “for whom the day is difficult,” apparently mistaking the Hebrew word for “spirit” רוּחַ (ruakh) to be the word for “day” יוֹם (yom).

[1:15]  ³ tn Heb “before.”

[5:3]  ⁴ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”

[5:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ⁷ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[7:12]  ⁸ tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”

[7:12]  ⁹ sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.

[7:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).

[8:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Listen to the voice of the people, to all which they say to you.”

[8:18]  ¹² tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”

[8:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “listen to their voice.”

[9:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “responded.”

[12:11]  ¹⁵ sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.

[12:11]  ¹⁶ tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”

[12:11]  ¹⁷ tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”

[13:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “said.”

[13:12]  ¹⁹ tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”

[14:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[14:33]  ²¹ tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.

[14:39]  ²² tn Heb “and there was no one answering from all the army.”

[15:2]  ²³ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

[15:24]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and your words.”

[15:24]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and I listened to their voice.”

[15:35]  ²⁸ tn That is, Samuel.

[16:4]  ²⁹ tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ³⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ³¹ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

[16:10]  ³² tn Heb “caused seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.” This could be taken as referring to seven sons in addition to the three mentioned before this, but 1 Sam 17:12 says Jesse had eight sons, not eleven. 1 Chr 2:13-15 lists only seven sons, including David. However, 1 Chr 27:18 mentions an additional son, named Elihu.

[16:12]  ³³ tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”

[19:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “[was] to.”

[19:9]  ³⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”

[26:9]  ³⁶ tn Heb “anointed” (also in vv. 11, 16, 23).

[26:20]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

[26:24]  ³⁸ tn Heb “your life was great this day in my eyes.”

[26:24]  ³⁹ tn Heb “may my life be great in the eyes of the Lord.”

[30:26]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “blessing.”