1 Samuel 1:16-17

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

1:17 Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him.”

1 Samuel 2:10

2:10 The Lord shatters ²  his adversaries; ³ 

he thunders against them from ⁴  the heavens.

The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.

He will strengthen ⁵  his king

and exalt the power ⁶  of his anointed one.” ⁷ 

1 Samuel 8:6

8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for ⁸  they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.

1 Samuel 9:22

9:22 Then Samuel brought ⁹  Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.

1 Samuel 12:18

12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

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 14:37

14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.

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 17:10

17:10 Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight ¹⁰  each other!”

1 Samuel 17:38

17:38 Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.

1 Samuel 17:44

17:44 The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!” ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 17:47

17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”

1 Samuel 18:4

18:4 Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with the rest of his gear, including his sword, his bow, and even his belt.

1 Samuel 20:40

20:40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, “Go, take these things back to the city.”

1 Samuel 23:4

23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

1 Samuel 23:14

23:14 David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, ¹²  but God did not deliver David ¹³  into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:7

24:7 David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down ¹⁴  the road.

1 Samuel 25:11

25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

1 Samuel 26:23

26:23 The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. ¹⁵  Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord’s chosen one.

1 Samuel 27:6

27:6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

1 Samuel 28:17

28:17 The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! ¹⁶  The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

1 Samuel 30:11

30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.

[1:16]  ¹ tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”

[2:10]  ² tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:10]  ³ tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.

[2:10]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”

[2:10]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.

[2:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.

[2:10]  sn The anointed one is the anticipated king of Israel, as the preceding line makes clear.

[8:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “when.”

[9:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “took and brought.”

[17:10]  ¹⁰ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative verbal form indicates purpose/result here.

[17:44]  ¹¹ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “the earth” here, instead of the MT’s “the field.”

[23:14]  ¹² tn Heb “all the days.”

[23:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “went on.”

[26:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the Lord returns to the man his righteousness and his faithfulness.”

[28:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “just as he said by my hand.”