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 4:4

4:4 So the army ²  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 7:14

7:14 The cities that the Philistines had captured from Israel were returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath. Israel also delivered their territory from the control ³  of the Philistines. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1 Samuel 8:11

8:11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

1 Samuel 13:5-6

13:5 For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 ⁴  chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. 13:6 The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ⁵  and cisterns.

1 Samuel 14:24

Jonathan Violates Saul’s Oath

14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.

1 Samuel 17:52

17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. ⁶  They chased the Philistines to the valley ⁷  and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

1 Samuel 18:5

18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 22:17

22:17 Then the king said to the messengers ⁹  who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided ¹⁰  with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm ¹¹  the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 29:3

29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? ¹²  I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” ¹³ 

[1:3]  ¹ tn Heb “from days to days.”

[4:4]  ² tn Or “people.”

[7:14]  ³ tn Heb “hand.”

[13:5]  ⁴ tn Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV) read “30,000” here.

[13:6]  ⁵ tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

[17:52]  ⁶ tn Heb “arose and cried out.”

[17:52]  ⁷ tc Most of the LXX ms tradition has here “Gath.”

[18:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”

[22:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “runners.”

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their hand is.”

[22:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”

[29:3]  ¹² tn Heb “these days or these years.”

[29:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”