1 Samuel 1

1 a. Eliel, 1 Chr. 6:34

1 b. Toah, 1 Chr. 6:34

9 c. palace or temple, Heb. heykal

10 d. Lit. wept greatly

16 e. Lit. daughter of Belial

20 f. Lit. Heard by God

23 g. confirm

23 h. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX, Syr. your

24 i. DSS, LXX, Syr. a three-year-old bull

28 j. granted

1 Samuel 2

1 a. Strength

1 b. Lit. My mouth is enlarged

10 c. Strength

11 d. served

12 e. Lit. sons of Belial

17 f. despised

20 g. gift

21 h. attended to

22 i. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; DSS, LXX omit rest of verse

25 j. Tg. the Judge

31 k. strength

36 l. assign

1 Samuel 3

3 a. palace or temple

13 b. Lit. rebuke

15 c. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX adds and he arose in the morning

19 d. fail

20 e. confirmed

1 Samuel 4

1 a. So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. add And it came to pass in those days that the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight; LXX adds further against Israel

2 b. Lit. struck

9 c. Lit. Be men

10 d. Lit. struck down

13 e. So with MT, Vg.; LXX beside the gate watching the road

13 f. trembled with anxiety

15 g. fixed

20 h. pay any attention to

21 i. Lit. Inglorious

1 Samuel 5

2 a. A Philistine idol

4 b. So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT Dagon

6 c. Probably bubonic plague. LXX, Vg. add And in the midst of their land rats sprang up, and there was a great death panic in the city.

9 d. Vg. and they had tumors in their secret parts

1 Samuel 6

4 a. Lit. them

5 b. ease

9 c. this calamity to us

19 d. Or He struck seventy men of the people and fifty oxen of a man

1 Samuel 7

3 a. Images of Canaanite goddesses

4 b. Images of Canaanite goddesses

11 c. struck them down

12 d. Lit. Stone of Help

1 Samuel 8

16 a. LXX cattle

1 Samuel 9

1 a. wealth

9 b. Lit. to seek God

10 c. Lit. Your word is good

16 d. prince or ruler

20 e. for whom

21 f. Lit. tribes

25 g. So with MT, Tg.; LXX omits He spoke with Saul on the top of the house; LXX, Vg. afterward add And he prepared a bed for Saul on the top of the house, and he slept.

27 h. now

1 Samuel 10

1 a. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX people Israel; and you shall rule the people of the Lord; LXX, Vg. add And you shall deliver His people from the hands of their enemies all around them. And this shall be a sign to you, that God has anointed you to be a prince.

4 b. ask you about your welfare

9 c. changed his heart

19 d. Lit. thousands

24 e. Lit. May the king live

27 f. kept silent

1 Samuel 11

1 a. besieged

3 b. deliver

7 c. Lit. as one man

1 Samuel 12

1 a. listened to

8 b. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX adds and the Egyptians afflicted them

10 c. Images of Canaanite goddesses

11 d. Gideon, cf. Judg. 6:25–32; Syr. Deborah; Tg. Gideon

11 e. LXX, Syr. Barak; Tg. Simson

11 f. Syr. Simson

1 Samuel 13

1 a. Heb. is difficult; cf. 2 Sam. 5:4; 2 Kin. 14:2; see also 2 Sam. 2:10; Acts 13:21

4 b. odious

5 c. So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; Syr. and some mss. of LXX three thousand

10 d. Lit. bless him

15 e. So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. add And the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the people who fought against them, going from Gilgal to Gibeah in the hill of Benjamin.

16 f. Heb. Geba

21 g. About two-thirds shekel weight

1 Samuel 14

1 a. carried

12 b. teach

14 c. Lit. half the area plowed by a yoke of oxen in a day

15 d. terror

18 e. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX ephod

27 f. Lit. eyes

31 g. Lit. struck

32 h. plunder

41 i. So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. Why do You not answer Your servant today? If the injustice is with me or Jonathan my son, O LORD God of Israel, give proof; and if You say it is with Your people Israel, give holiness.

47 j. LXX, Vg. prospered

48 k. Lit. struck

49 l. Abinadab, 1 Chr. 8:33; 9:39

1 Samuel 15

3 a. Lit. strike

18 b. exterminated

19 c. plunder

23 d. divination

1 Samuel 16

1 a. Lit. seen

5 b. Consecrate

7 c. rejected

7 d. LXX For God does not see as man sees; Tg. It is not by the appearance of a man; Vg. Nor do I judge according to the looks of a man

11 e. So with LXX, Vg.; MT turn around; Tg., Syr. turn away

12 f. Lit. beautiful

16 g. Lit. evil

17 h. Lit. Look now for a man for me

1 Samuel 17

5 a. clothed with scaled body armor

29 b. Lit. Is it not a word? or matter?

38 c. Lit. clothes

42 d. belittled

52 e. So with MT, Syr., Tg., Vg.; LXX Gath

1 Samuel 18

1 a. life of Jonathan was bound up with the life of

5 b. Or prospered

6 c. Philistines

9 d. Viewed with suspicion

13 e. Lit. himself

21 f. be bait for

24 g. Lit. According to these words

29 h. all the days

1 Samuel 19

13 a. household idols, Heb. teraphim

1 Samuel 20

12 a. searched out

15 b. stop being kind

15 c. family

16 d. family

25 e. So with MT, Syr., Tg., Vg.; LXX he sat across from Jonathan

31 f. Lit. is a son of death

33 g. strike him down

40 h. equipment

1 Samuel 21

4 a. ordinary

4 b. consecrated

5 c. The young men are ceremonially undefiled

12 d. Lit. in his heart

13 e. insanity

13 f. scribbled

1 Samuel 22

2 a. Lit. bitter of soul

18 b. attacked

22 c. family

1 Samuel 23

2 a. Lit. strike

12 b. Lit. shut up

15 c. Or in Horesh

16 d. encouraged him

23 e. Lit. thousands

25 f. Or from the rock

28 g. Heb. Sela Hammahlekoth

1 Samuel 25

1 a. So with MT, Syr., Tg., Vg.; LXX Maon

8 b. be gracious to the young men

11 c. Lit. slaughter

14 d. scolded or scorned at

17 e. Lit. son of Belial

24 f. speak to you

25 g. pay attention to

25 h. Lit. Fool

26 i. Lit. saving yourself

42 j. Lit. with five of her maidens at her feet

44 k. Paltiel, 2 Sam. 3:15

1 Samuel 26

8 a. Or one time

1 Samuel 27

1 a. despair of searching for

7 b. Lit. the number of days

8 c. Or Gezrites

8 d. ancient times

9 e. Lit. struck

1 Samuel 28

13 a. Heb. elohim

17 b. Or him, i.e., David

1 Samuel 29

2 a. passed on in the rear

10 b. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX adds and go to the place which I have selected for you there; and set no bothersome word in your heart, for you are good before me. And rise on your way

1 Samuel 30

6 a. Lit. bitter

21 b. asked them concerning their welfare

22 c. Lit. men of Belial

26 d. booty

30 e. Or Borashan

1 Samuel 31

3 a. Lit. found him

4 b. torture

10 c. Beth Shean, Josh. 17:11