1 Samuel 1:3

1:3 Year after year ¹  this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.

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 6:8

6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.

1 Samuel 6:18

6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, ⁸  where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.

1 Samuel 7:6

7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed ⁹  there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led ¹⁰  the people of Israel at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 11:15

11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where ¹¹  they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.

1 Samuel 12:10

12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ¹²  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ¹³  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ¹⁴ 

1 Samuel 12:17

12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”

1 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene ¹⁵  for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

1 Samuel 15:22

15:22 Then Samuel said,

“Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as he does in obedience? ¹⁶ 

Certainly, ¹⁷  obedience ¹⁸  is better than sacrifice;

paying attention is better than ¹⁹  the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 16:2

16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you ²⁰  and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

1 Samuel 17:37

17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” ²¹ 

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 20:13

20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know ²²  and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. ²³  May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ²⁴  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ²⁵  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ²⁶  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 26:16

26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! ²⁷  As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! ²⁸  Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “from days to days.”

[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.

[6:18]  ⁸ tc A few Hebrew mss and the LXX read “villages; the large rock…[is witness] until this very day.”

[7:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “said.”

[7:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”

[11:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”

[12:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and said.”

[12:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.

[12:10]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.

[12:10]  ¹⁴ tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

[14:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “act.”

[15:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “as [in] listening to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “look.”

[15:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “listening.”

[15:22]  ¹⁹ tn The expression “is better” is understood here by ellipsis (see the immediately preceding statement).

[16:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in your hand.”

[17:37]  ²¹ tn Or “Go, and may the Lord be with you” (so NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[20:13]  ²² tn Heb “uncover your ear.”

[20:13]  ²³ tn Heb “in peace.”

[22:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[26:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”

[26:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “you are sons of death.”