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 2:35-36

2:35 Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty ²  and he will serve my chosen one for all time. ³  2:36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money ⁴  and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”

1 Samuel 11:2

11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”

1 Samuel 12:14

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ⁵  and not rebelling against what he says, ⁶  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ⁷ 

1 Samuel 17:9

17:9 If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.”

1 Samuel 20:12

20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. ⁸  I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? ⁹ 

1 Samuel 23:23

23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. ¹⁰  Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him ¹¹  among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 25:29

25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag ¹²  of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!

1 Samuel 28:19

28:19 The Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! ¹³  Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. ¹⁴  The Lord will also hand the army ¹⁵  of Israel over to the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 30:8

30:8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!”

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

[2:35]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[2:35]  ³ tn Heb “and he will walk about before my anointed one all the days.”

[2:36]  ⁴ tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[12:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

[12:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

[12:14]  ⁷ tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:12]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד, ’ed, “witness,” immediately followed ַָדוִד, “David,” in the original text).

[20:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”

[23:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “established.”

[23:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will search him out.”

[25:29]  ¹² tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”

[28:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “And the Lord will give also Israel along with you into the hand of the Philistines.”

[28:19]  ¹⁴ tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the LXX has here “and tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”

[28:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “camp.”