1 Samuel 3:17

3:17 Eli ¹  said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely ²  if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

1 Samuel 8:22

8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say ³  and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

1 Samuel 9:27

9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. ⁴  Samuel then said, ⁵  “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”

1 Samuel 15:1-2

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ⁶  15:2 Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed ⁷  Israel along the way when Israel ⁸  came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 16:4

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. ⁹  When he arrived in Bethlehem, ¹⁰  the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They ¹¹  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 16:12

16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. ¹²  Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”

[3:17]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:17]  ² tn Heb “So God will do to you and thus he will add.” The verbal forms in this pronouncement are imperfects, not jussives, but the statement has the force of a curse or warning. One could translate, “May God do to you and thus may he add.”

[8:22]  ³ tn Heb “listen to their voice.”

[9:27]  ⁴ tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin ms, and the Syriac Peshitta.

[9:27]  ⁵ tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[15:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

[15:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “what Amalek did to Israel, how he placed against him.”

[15:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “said.”

[16:4]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[16:4]  ¹¹ tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

[16:12]  ¹² tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”