Footnotes

Footnote from 1 Samuel 1:5 (Back)

[1] 1:5 Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Septuagint And, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the LORD had closed her womb

Footnote from 1 Samuel 1:20 (Back)

[2] 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard of God

Footnote from 1 Samuel 1:24 (Back)

[3] 1:24 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text three bulls

Footnote from 1 Samuel 1:24 (Back)

[4] 1:24 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

Footnote from 1 Samuel 2:11 (Back)

[1] 2:11 Hebrew na‘ar can be rendered boy (2:11, 18, 21, 26; 3:1, 8), servant (2:13, 15), or young man (2:17), depending on the context

Footnote from 1 Samuel 2:29 (Back)

[2] 2:29 Hebrew kick at

Footnote from 1 Samuel 2:33 (Back)

[3] 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew your; twice in this verse

Footnote from 1 Samuel 2:33 (Back)

[4] 2:33 Hebrew increase

Footnote from 1 Samuel 2:33 (Back)

[5] 2:33 Septuagint; Hebrew die as men

Footnote from 1 Samuel 3:13 (Back)

[1] 3:13 Or blaspheming for themselves

Footnote from 1 Samuel 4:3 (Back)

[1] 4:3 Or he

Footnote from 1 Samuel 4:21 (Back)

[2] 4:21 Or gone into exile; also verse 22

Footnote from 1 Samuel 6:19 (Back)

[1] 6:19 Most Hebrew manuscripts struck of the people seventy men, fifty thousand men

Footnote from 1 Samuel 7:12 (Back)

[1] 7:12 Hebrew; Septuagint, Syriac Jeshanah

Footnote from 1 Samuel 7:12 (Back)

[2] 7:12 Ebenezer means stone of help

Footnote from 1 Samuel 8:16 (Back)

[1] 8:16 Septuagint cattle

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:5 (Back)

[1] 9:5 Hebrew young man; also verses 7, 8, 10, 27

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:8 (Back)

[2] 9:8 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:16 (Back)

[3] 9:16 Or leader

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:16 (Back)

[4] 9:16 Septuagint adds the affliction of

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:24 (Back)

[5] 9:24 Hebrew appointed, saying, ‘I have invited the people”

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:25 (Back)

[6] 9:25 Septuagint; Hebrew and he spoke with Saul

Footnote from 1 Samuel 9:26 (Back)

[7] 9:26 Septuagint; Hebrew And they arose early and at the break of dawn

Footnote from 1 Samuel 10:1 (Back)

[1] 10:1 Or leader

Footnote from 1 Samuel 10:1 (Back)

[2] 10:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks over his people Israel? And you shall . . . . to be prince

Footnote from 1 Samuel 10:5 (Back)

[3] 10:5 Gibeath-elohim means the hill of God

Footnote from 1 Samuel 10:10 (Back)

[4] 10:10 Gibeah means the hill

Footnote from 1 Samuel 10:21 (Back)

[5] 10:21 Septuagint adds finally he brought the family of the Matrites near, man by man

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:3 (Back)

[1] 12:3 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Testify against me

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:6 (Back)

[2] 12:6 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks is witness

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:8 (Back)

[3] 12:8 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks and the Egyptians oppressed them

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:9 (Back)

[4] 12:9 Septuagint the army of Jabin king of Hazor

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:11 (Back)

[5] 12:11 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Bedan

Footnote from 1 Samuel 12:15 (Back)

[6] 12:15 Septuagint; Hebrew fathers

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:1 (Back)

[1] 13:1 Hebrew Saul was one year old when he became king, and he reigned two years over Israel (see 1 Samuel 10:6); some Greek manuscripts give Saul's age when he began to reign as thirty years

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:14 (Back)

[2] 13:14 Or leader

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:15 (Back)

[3] 13:15 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks The rest of the people . . . from Gilgal

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:20 (Back)

[4] 13:20 Septuagint; Hebrew plowshare

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:21 (Back)

[5] 13:21 Hebrew was a pim

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:21 (Back)

[6] 13:21 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Footnote from 1 Samuel 13:21 (Back)

[7] 13:21 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:2 (Back)

[1] 14:2 Or under the pomegranate [tree]

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:7 (Back)

[2] 14:7 Septuagint Do all that your mind inclines to

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:14 (Back)

[3] 14:14 Hebrew a yoke

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:15 (Back)

[4] 14:15 Or became a panic from God

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:16 (Back)

[5] 14:16 Septuagint; Hebrew they went here and there

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:18 (Back)

[6] 14:18 Hebrew; Septuagint “Bring the ephod.” For at that time he wore the ephod before the people

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:25 (Back)

[7] 14:25 Hebrew land

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:33 (Back)

[8] 14:33 Septuagint; Hebrew this day

Footnote from 1 Samuel 14:41 (Back)

[9] 14:41 Vulgate and Septuagint; Hebrew Therefore Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Give Thummim.”

Footnote from 1 Samuel 15:3 (Back)

[1] 15:3 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21

Footnote from 1 Samuel 15:9 (Back)

[2] 15:9 The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain

Footnote from 1 Samuel 15:11 (Back)

[3] 15:11 See also verses 29, 35

Footnote from 1 Samuel 15:32 (Back)

[4] 15:32 Or haltingly (compare Septuagint); the Hebrew is uncertain

Footnote from 1 Samuel 16:11 (Back)

[1] 16:11 Or smallest

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:4 (Back)

[1] 17:4 Hebrew; Septuagint, Dead Sea Scroll and Josephus four

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:4 (Back)

[2] 17:4 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:5 (Back)

[3] 17:5 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:12 (Back)

[4] 17:12 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew advanced among men

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:17 (Back)

[5] 17:17 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

Footnote from 1 Samuel 17:52 (Back)

[6] 17:52 Septuagint; Hebrew Gai

Footnote from 1 Samuel 18:6 (Back)

[1] 18:6 Or triangles, or three-stringed instruments

Footnote from 1 Samuel 18:21 (Back)

[2] 18:21 Hebrew by two

Footnote from 1 Samuel 19:13 (Back)

[1] 19:13 Or a household god

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:12 (Back)

[1] 20:12 Hebrew lacks be witness

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:15 (Back)

[2] 20:15 Or but if I die, do not cut off

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:16 (Back)

[3] 20:16 Septuagint earth, 16let not the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David. And may

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:19 (Back)

[4] 20:19 Septuagint; Hebrew the stone Ezel

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:25 (Back)

[5] 20:25 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew stood up

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:41 (Back)

[6] 20:41 Septuagint; Hebrew from beside the south

Footnote from 1 Samuel 20:42 (Back)

[7] 20:42 This sentence is 21:1 in Hebrew

Footnote from 1 Samuel 21:1 (Back)

[1] 21:1 Ch 21:2 in Hebrew

Footnote from 1 Samuel 22:2 (Back)

[1] 22:2 Or discontented

Footnote from 1 Samuel 22:3 (Back)

[2] 22:3 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew go out

Footnote from 1 Samuel 22:14 (Back)

[3] 22:14 Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew and has turned aside to

Footnote from 1 Samuel 23:28 (Back)

[1] 23:28 Or Rock of Divisions

Footnote from 1 Samuel 23:29 (Back)

[2] 23:29 Ch 24:1 in Hebrew

Footnote from 1 Samuel 24:1 (Back)

[1] 24:1 Ch 24:2 in Hebrew

Footnote from 1 Samuel 24:3 (Back)

[2] 24:3 Hebrew cover his feet

Footnote from 1 Samuel 24:10 (Back)

[3] 24:10 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew it [my eye] spared you

Footnote from 1 Samuel 25:18 (Back)

[1] 25:18 A seah was about 7 quarts or 7.3 liters

Footnote from 1 Samuel 25:22 (Back)

[2] 25:22 Septuagint to David

Footnote from 1 Samuel 25:25 (Back)

[3] 25:25 Nabal means fool

Footnote from 1 Samuel 25:30 (Back)

[4] 25:30 Or leader

Footnote from 1 Samuel 30:2 (Back)

[1] 30:2 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks and all

Footnote from 1 Samuel 30:6 (Back)

[2] 30:6 Compare 22:2

Footnote from 1 Samuel 30:20 (Back)

[3] 30:20 The meaning of the Hebrew clause is uncertain