Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:11 
Context1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion 1 on the suffering of your female servant, 2 remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child 3 to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.” 4
1 Samuel 2:25
Context2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons 5 would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided 6 to kill them.
1 Samuel 6:3
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 7 the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”
1 Samuel 11:7
Context11:7 He took a pair 8 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 9
1 Samuel 12:17
Context12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 10
1 Samuel 15:9
Context15:9 However, Saul and the army spared Agag, along with the best of the flock, the cattle, the fatlings, 11 and the lambs, as well as everything else that was of value. 12 They were not willing to slaughter them. But they did slaughter everything that was despised 13 and worthless.
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 14 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 15 People look on the outward appearance, 16 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 20:12
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 17 I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? 18
1 Samuel 20:29
Context20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 19 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 20 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 21 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 22:8
Context22:8 For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me 22 when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 23 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 24 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 25 the priests of the Lord.
1 Samuel 24:10
Context24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity 26 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 27
1 Samuel 26:16
Context26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! 28 As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! 29 Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
1 Samuel 29:6
Context29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 30 serving 31 with me in the army. 32 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 33 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 34
1 Samuel 30:15
Context30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
1 tn Heb “if looking you look.” The expression can refer, as here, to looking favorably upon another, in this case with compassion.
2 tn Heb “handmaid.” The use of this term (translated two more times in this verse and once each in vv. 16, 17 simply as “servant” for stylistic reasons) is an expression of humility.
3 tn Heb “seed of men.”
4 tn Heb “a razor will not go up upon his head.”
5 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “desired.”
7 tc The LXX and a Qumran
8 tn Heb “yoke.”
9 tn Heb “like one man.”
10 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
11 tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. We should probably read וְהַמַּשְׂמַנִּים (vÿhammasmannim, “the fat ones”) rather than the MT וְהַמִּשְׂנִים (vÿhammisnim, “the second ones”). However, if the MT is retained, the sense may be as the Jewish commentator Kimchi supposed: the second-born young, thought to be better than the firstlings. (For discussion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 123-24.)
12 tn Heb “good.”
13 tc The MT has here the very odd form נְמִבְזָה (nÿmivzah), but this is apparently due to a scribal error. The translation follows instead the Niphal participle נִבְזָה (nivzah).
14 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
15 tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.
16 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
17 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
18 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
19 tn Heb “send me.”
20 tn Heb “commanded.”
21 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
22 tn Heb “uncovers my ear.”
23 tn Heb “runners.”
24 tn Heb “their hand is.”
25 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
26 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
27 tn Heb “anointed.”
28 tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”
29 tn Heb “you are sons of death.”
30 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
31 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
32 tn Heb “camp.”
33 tn Heb “eyes.”
34 tn Heb “good.”
