Invite translates the Hebrew word that is elsewhere rendered “call” (as in the story of the calling of Samuel in chapter 3). It is also used in 6.2, where the Philistines summoned the priests and magicians.

Show you: this verb is literally “cause you to know.” It may be better rendered “inform you.” Some other renderings are “make known to you” (New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh), “tell you” (New American Bible), or “reveal to you” (New Jerusalem Bible).

Anoint: see the comments on 2.10.

For me: see the comments on “for myself” in verse 1 above. Here again the emphasis seems to be intentional, but Good News Translation again omits this element.

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on the First and Second Books of Samuel, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2001. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .