1 Samuel 1:24

1:24 Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah ¹  of flour, and a container ²  of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. ³ 

1 Samuel 2:8

2:8 He lifts the weak ⁴  from the dust;

he raises ⁵  the poor from the ash heap

to seat them with princes

and to bestow on them an honored position. ⁶ 

The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,

and he has placed the world on them.

1 Samuel 4:4

4:4 So the army ⁷  sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 7:3

7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. ⁸  Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you ⁹  from the hand of the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 11:7

11:7 He took a pair ¹⁰  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 15:15

15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ¹²  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

1 Samuel 17:25

17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ¹³  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

1 Samuel 19:5

19:5 He risked his life ¹⁴  when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”

1 Samuel 19:20

19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

1 Samuel 20:27

20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul Executes the Priests

22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. ¹⁵  Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.

1 Samuel 26:21

26:21 Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value ¹⁶  this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!” ¹⁷ 

1 Samuel 28:1

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops ¹⁸  for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” ¹⁹ 

1 Samuel 30:21

30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, ²⁰  those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

[1:24]  ¹ sn The ephah was a standard dry measure in OT times; it was the equivalent of one-tenth of the OT measure known as a homer. The ephah was equal to approximately one-half to two-thirds of a bushel.

[1:24]  ² tn The Hebrew term translated “container” may denote either a clay storage jar (cf. CEV “a clay jar full of wine”) or a leather container (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV “a skin of wine”; NCV “a leather bag filled with (full of TEV) wine.”

[1:24]  ³ tc Heb “and the boy was a boy.” If the MT is correct the meaning apparently is that the boy was quite young at the time of these events. On the other hand, some scholars have suspected a textual problem, emending the text to read either “and the boy was with them” (so LXX) or “and the boy was with her” (a conjectural emendation). In spite of the difficulty it seems best to stay with the MT here.

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”

[2:8]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.

[2:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “a seat of honor.”

[4:4]  ⁷ tn Or “people.”

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.

[7:3]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.

[7:3]  ⁹ tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[11:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like one man.”

[15:15]  ¹² tn Heb “they brought them.”

[17:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “he is coming up.”

[19:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”

[22:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”

[26:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.”

[26:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and I have erred very greatly.”

[28:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “their camps.”

[28:1]  ¹⁹ tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

[30:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.