Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:10 
Context1:10 She was very upset 1 as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably. 2
1 Samuel 1:12
Context1:12 As she continued praying to 3 the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.
1 Samuel 2:6-7
Context2:6 The Lord both kills and gives life;
he brings down to the grave 4 and raises up.
2:7 The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:12
Context2:12 The sons of Eli were wicked men. 5 They did not recognize the Lord’s authority. 6
1 Samuel 2:18
Context2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 3:4
Context3:4 The Lord called to Samuel, and he replied, “Here I am!”
1 Samuel 7:4
Context7:4 So the Israelites 7 removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the Lord.
1 Samuel 8:21
Context8:21 So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord. 8
1 Samuel 9:15
Context9:15 Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told 9 Samuel:
1 Samuel 10:17
Context10:17 Then Samuel called the people together before the Lord at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 14:23
Context14:23 So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven. 10
1 Samuel 15:25
Context15:25 Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship 11 the Lord.”
1 Samuel 16:9
Context16:9 Then Jesse presented 12 Shammah. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.”
1 Samuel 18:12
Context18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 18:14
Context18:14 Now David achieved success in all he did, 13 for the Lord was with him.
1 Samuel 18:28
Context18:28 When Saul realized 14 that the Lord was with David and that his 15 daughter Michal loved David, 16
1 Samuel 22:12
Context22:12 Then Saul said, “Listen, son of Ahitub.” He replied, “Here I am, my lord.”
1 Samuel 22:21
Context22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.
1 Samuel 23:21
Context23:21 Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 24:6
Context24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, 17 by extending my hand against him. After all, 18 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 19
1 Samuel 25:26
Context25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:38
Context25:38 After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.
1 tn Heb “she [was in] bitterness of soul.”
2 tn Heb “and weeping, she was weeping.” The infinitive absolute emphasizes the extent of her sorrow. The imperfect verbal form emphasizes the continuation of the action in past time.
3 tc Heb “before.” Many medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “to.”
4 tn Heb “Sheol”; NAB “the nether world”; CEV “the world of the dead.”
5 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness.”
6 tn Heb “they did not know the
7 tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”
8 tn Heb “and Samuel heard all the words of the people and he spoke them into the ears of the
9 tn Heb “uncovered the ear of.”
10 tc The LXX includes the following words: “And all the people were with Saul, about ten thousand men. And the battle extended to the entire city on mount Ephraim.”
11 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
12 tn Heb “caused to pass by.”
13 tn Heb “in all his ways.”
14 tn Heb “saw and knew.”
15 tn Heb “Saul’s.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “anointed.”
18 tn Or “for.”
19 tn Heb “anointed.”
