The Best Bible Verses in 1 Samuel (ESV)

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1 Samuel

•   1 Samuel 1:10 “She was deeply distressed & prayed to the LORD & wept bitterly.”

•   1 Samuel 1:19 "They rose early in the morning & worshiped before the LORD”

•   1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the LORD…My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.”

•   1 Samuel 3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

•   1 Samuel 8:7 “the LORD said…they have rejected me from being king over them.”

•   1 Samuel 8:19 “the people refused to obey”

•   1 Samuel 12:14 “If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, …

    ...and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.”

•   1 Sam 12:20 "serve the LORD with all your heart.”

•   1 Samuel 12:20-21 "serve the LORD with all your heart. And do not turn aside after empty things”

•   1Sam12:22 the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, b/c it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself

•   1 Samuel 14:6 “It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few.”

•   1 Samuel 15:29 “And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

•   1 Samuel 16:7 “For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

•   1 Samuel 17:26 “who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

•   1Sam17:37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion &from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.

•   1 Samuel 17:45–47 “I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied…For the battle is the LORD’s”

•   1 Samuel 18:1 "the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”

•   1 Samuel 21:13 “So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane”

•   1 Samuel 23:2 “Therefore David inquired of the LORD”

•   1 Samuel 23:14 "Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand"