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1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 1:14 אֵלֶ֨י/הָ֙ prep + sfx pers 3fs Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
• 1 Samuel 1:19 אֶל prep They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
• 1 Samuel 1:25 אֶל prep They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
• 1 Samuel 1:26 אֶל prep She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 1:27 אֶל prep For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:
• 1 Samuel 2:16 אֵלָ֜י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
• 1 Samuel 2:27 אֶל אֵלָ֗י/ו אֶל prep prep + sfx pers 3ms prep There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?
• 1 Samuel 2:34 אֶל אֶל prep prep This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
• 1 Samuel 2:36 אֶל prep It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
• 1 Samuel 3:4 אֶל prep that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
• 1 Samuel 3:5 אֶל prep He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
• 1 Samuel 3:6 אֶל prep Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.
• 1 Samuel 3:7 אֵלָ֖י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him.
• 1 Samuel 3:8 אֶל prep Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
• 1 Samuel 3:9 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
• 1 Samuel 3:11 אֶל prep Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
• 1 Samuel 3:12 אֶל אֶל prep prep In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
• 1 Samuel 3:15 אֶל prep Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
• 1 Samuel 3:17 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 2ms He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
• 1 Samuel 3:21 אֶל prep Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 4:3 אֶל אֵלֵ֣י/נוּ prep prep + sfx pers 1cp When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
• 1 Samuel 4:5 אֶל prep When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
• 1 Samuel 4:6 אֶל prep When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
• 1 Samuel 4:7 אֶל prep The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
• 1 Samuel 4:16 אֶל prep The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
• 1 Samuel 4:19 אֶל prep His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
• 1 Samuel 4:21 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
• 1 Samuel 5:4 אֶל prep When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.
• 1 Samuel 5:6 אֶל prep But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders of it.
• 1 Samuel 5:8 אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God of Israel [there].
• 1 Samuel 5:10 אֵלַ/י֙ prep + sfx pers 1cs So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
• 1 Samuel 6:8 אֶל prep and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go.
• 1 Samuel 6:11 אֶל prep and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
• 1 Samuel 6:14 אֶל prep The cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cattle for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 6:15 אֶל prep The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 6:20 וְ/אֶל conj + prep The men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
• 1 Samuel 6:21 אֶל אֲלֵי/כֶֽם prep prep + sfx pers 2mp They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.
• 1 Samuel 7:1 אֶל prep The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 7:3 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
• 1 Samuel 7:5 אֶל prep Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 7:7 אֶל prep When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
• 1 Samuel 7:8 אֶל אֶל prep prep The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
• 1 Samuel 7:9 אֶל prep Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt-offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
• 1 Samuel 8:4 אֶל prep Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
• 1 Samuel 8:5 אֵלָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
• 1 Samuel 8:6 אֶל prep But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 8:7 אֶל אֵלֶ֑י/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
• 1 Samuel 8:10 אֶל prep Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
• 1 Samuel 8:22 אֶל אֶל prep prep Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city.
• 1 Samuel 9:3 אֶל prep The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.
• 1 Samuel 9:10 אֶל prep Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
• 1 Samuel 9:16 אֵלֶ֨י/ךָ אֵלָֽ/י prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 1cs Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry is come to me.
• 1 Samuel 9:17 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
• 1 Samuel 9:21 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?
• 1 Samuel 9:23 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you.
• 1 Samuel 9:26 אֶל prep They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
• 1 Samuel 9:27 אֶל prep As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
• 1 Samuel 10:2 אֵלֶ֗י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and, behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
• 1 Samuel 10:3 אֶל prep Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
• 1 Samuel 10:8 אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms prep + sfx pers 2ms You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shall you wait, until I come to you, and show you what you shall do.
• 1 Samuel 10:11 אֶל prep It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
• 1 Samuel 10:14 אֵלָ֛י/ו וְ/אֶֽל אֶל prep + sfx pers 3ms conj + prep prep Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.
• 1 Samuel 10:16 אֶל prep Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
• 1 Samuel 10:17 אֶל prep Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
• 1 Samuel 10:18 אֶל prep and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
• 1 Samuel 10:22 אֶל prep Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
• 1 Samuel 10:24 אֶל prep Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
• 1 Samuel 10:25 אֶל prep Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
• 1 Samuel 11:1 אֶל prep Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
• 1 Samuel 11:2 אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם prep + sfx pers 3mp Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.
• 1 Samuel 11:3 אֵלָ֜י/ו אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 2ms The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to you.
• 1 Samuel 11:10 אֲלֵי/כֶ֑ם prep + sfx pers 2mp Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
• 1 Samuel 11:12 אֶל prep The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
• 1 Samuel 11:14 אֶל prep Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
• 1 Samuel 12:1 אֶל prep Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
• 1 Samuel 12:5 אֲלֵי/הֶ֜ם prep + sfx pers 3mp He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. They said, He is witness.
• 1 Samuel 12:6 אֶל prep Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 12:8 אֶל prep When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
• 1 Samuel 12:10 אֶל prep They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
• 1 Samuel 12:17 אֶל prep Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.
• 1 Samuel 12:18 אֶל prep So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
• 1 Samuel 12:19 אֶל אֶל prep prep All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
• 1 Samuel 12:20 אֶל prep Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
• 1 Samuel 13:9 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace-offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
• 1 Samuel 13:12 אֵלַ/י֙ prep + sfx pers 1cs therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
• 1 Samuel 13:13 אֶל אֶל prep prep Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
• 1 Samuel 13:17 אֶל אֶל prep prep The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
• 1 Samuel 13:23 אֶֽל prep The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
• 1 Samuel 14:1 אֶל אֶל prep prep Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.
• 1 Samuel 14:6 אֶל אֶל prep prep Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few.
• 1 Samuel 14:8 אֶל אֲלֵי/הֶֽם prep prep + sfx pers 3mp Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.
• 1 Samuel 14:9 אֵלֵ֔י/נוּ אֲלֵי/כֶ֑ם אֲלֵי/הֶֽם prep + sfx pers 1cp prep + sfx pers 2mp prep + sfx pers 3mp If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
• 1 Samuel 14:11 אֶל prep Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
• 1 Samuel 14:12 אֵלֵ֔י/נוּ אֶל prep + sfx pers 1cp prep The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
• 1 Samuel 14:19 אֶל אֶל prep prep It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
• 1 Samuel 14:26 אֶל אֶל prep prep When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
• 1 Samuel 14:27 אֶל prep But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
• 1 Samuel 14:32 אֶל prep and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
• 1 Samuel 14:33 אֵלַ֥/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.
• 1 Samuel 14:34 אֵלַ/י֩ אֶל prep + sfx pers 1cs prep Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
• 1 Samuel 14:36 אֶל prep Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
• 1 Samuel 14:40 אֶל אֶל prep prep Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
• 1 Samuel 14:41 אֶל prep Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped.
• 1 Samuel 14:43 אֶל prep Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.
• 1 Samuel 14:45 אֶל prep The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
• 1 Samuel 14:52 אֵלָֽי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.
• 1 Samuel 15:1 אֶל prep Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 15:6 אֶֽל prep Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:10 אֶל prep Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
• 1 Samuel 15:11 אֶל prep It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
• 1 Samuel 15:13 אֶל prep Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 15:16 אֶל אֵלַ֖/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
• 1 Samuel 15:19 אֶל prep Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
• 1 Samuel 15:20 אֶל prep Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:24 אֶל prep Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
• 1 Samuel 15:26 אֶל prep Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.
• 1 Samuel 15:28 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
• 1 Samuel 15:32 אֵלַ/י֙ אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 1cs prep + sfx pers 3ms Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• 1 Samuel 15:34 אֶל prep Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
• 1 Samuel 15:35 אֶל prep Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
• 1 Samuel 16:1 אֶל אֶל אֶל prep prep prep Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
• 1 Samuel 16:3 אֵלֶֽי/ךָ prep + sfx pers 2ms Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
• 1 Samuel 16:7 אֶל אֶל וְ/אֶל prep prep conj + prep But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
• 1 Samuel 16:8 אֶל prep Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 16:10 אֶל prep Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
• 1 Samuel 16:11 אֶל אֶל prep prep Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
• 1 Samuel 16:13 אֶל prep Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
• 1 Samuel 16:15 אֵלָ֑י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
• 1 Samuel 16:17 אֶל אֵלָֽ/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.
• 1 Samuel 16:19 אֶל אֵלַ֛/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
• 1 Samuel 16:20 אֶל prep Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
• 1 Samuel 16:21 אֶל prep David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
• 1 Samuel 16:22 אֶל prep Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
• 1 Samuel 16:23 אֶל prep It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
• 1 Samuel 17:3 אֶל אֶל prep prep The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
• 1 Samuel 17:8 אֶל אֵלָֽ/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
• 1 Samuel 17:20 אֶל prep David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
• 1 Samuel 17:26 אֶֽל prep David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• 1 Samuel 17:28 אֶל prep Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
• 1 Samuel 17:30 אֶל prep He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
• 1 Samuel 17:32 אֶל prep David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
• 1 Samuel 17:33 אֶל אֶל prep prep Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
• 1 Samuel 17:34 אֶל prep David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
• 1 Samuel 17:37 אֶל prep David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.
• 1 Samuel 17:39 אֶל prep David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go; for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these; for I have not proved them. David put them off him.
• 1 Samuel 17:40 אֶל prep He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
• 1 Samuel 17:41 אֶל prep The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.
• 1 Samuel 17:43 אֶל אֵלַ֖/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
• 1 Samuel 17:44 אֶל אֵלַ֔/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.
• 1 Samuel 17:45 אֶל אֵלַ֔/י אֵלֶ֗י/ךָ prep prep + sfx pers 1cs prep + sfx pers 2ms Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• 1 Samuel 17:49 אֶל אֶל prep prep David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
• 1 Samuel 17:51 אֶל prep Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
• 1 Samuel 17:55 אֶל prep When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.
• 1 Samuel 17:58 אֵלָי/ו֙ prep + sfx pers 3ms Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
• 1 Samuel 18:1 אֶל prep It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• 1 Samuel 18:10 אֶל prep It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
• 1 Samuel 18:17 אֶל prep Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
• 1 Samuel 18:18 אֶל prep David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
• 1 Samuel 18:21 אֶל prep Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time.
• 1 Samuel 18:22 אֶל prep Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.
• 1 Samuel 19:1 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
• 1 Samuel 19:3 אֶל prep and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.
• 1 Samuel 19:4 אֶל אֵ֠לָי/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you:
• 1 Samuel 19:7 אֶל prep Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.
• 1 Samuel 19:9 אֶל prep An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
• 1 Samuel 19:11 אֶל prep Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
• 1 Samuel 19:13 אֶל prep Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.
• 1 Samuel 19:15 אֵלַ֖/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
• 1 Samuel 19:16 אֶל prep When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
• 1 Samuel 19:17 אֶל אֶל אֵלַ֛/י prep prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?
• 1 Samuel 19:18 אֶל prep Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
• 1 Samuel 19:23 אֶל prep He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
• 1 Samuel 20:4 אֶל prep Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.
• 1 Samuel 20:5 אֶל prep David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
• 1 Samuel 20:10 אֶל prep Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?
• 1 Samuel 20:11 אֶל prep Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. They went out both of them into the field.
• 1 Samuel 20:12 אֶל אֶל אֵלֶ֔י/ךָ prep prep prep + sfx pers 2ms Jonathan said to David, Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
• 1 Samuel 20:13 אֶל prep Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
• 1 Samuel 20:19 אֶל prep When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
• 1 Samuel 20:24 אֶל prep So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
• 1 Samuel 20:25 אֶל prep The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.
• 1 Samuel 20:27 אֶל אֶל prep prep It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
• 1 Samuel 20:29 אֶל prep and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
• 1 Samuel 20:31 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
• 1 Samuel 20:32 אֵלָ֛י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
• 1 Samuel 20:34 אֶל prep So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
• 1 Samuel 20:38 אֶל prep Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay! Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
• 1 Samuel 20:40 אֶל prep Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.
• 1 Samuel 21:1 אֶל prep Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?
• 1 Samuel 21:2 אֵלַ֗/י אֶל prep + sfx pers 1cs prep David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
• 1 Samuel 21:4 אֶל prep The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
• 1 Samuel 21:10 אֶל prep David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 21:11 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
• 1 Samuel 21:13 אֶל prep He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
• 1 Samuel 21:14 אֶל אֵלָֽ/י prep prep + sfx pers 1cs Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?
• 1 Samuel 21:15 אֶל prep Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
• 1 Samuel 22:1 אֶל אֵלָ֖י/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
• 1 Samuel 22:2 אֵ֠לָי/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
• 1 Samuel 22:3 אֶל prep David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me.
• 1 Samuel 22:5 אֶל prep The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.