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 6:12
Context6:12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.
1 Samuel 6:14
Context6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:3
Context7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. 8 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 9 from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 9:4
Context9:4 So Saul 10 crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
1 Samuel 9:27
Context9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. 11 Samuel then said, 12 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 10:21
Context10:21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.
1 Samuel 12:10
Context12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 13 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 14 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 15
1 Samuel 14:34
Context14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. 16
1 Samuel 16:11
Context16:11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Is that all of the young men?” Jesse 17 replied, “There is still the youngest one, but he’s taking care of the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 16:16
Context16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 18 and you will feel better.” 19
1 Samuel 17:46
Context17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
1 Samuel 18:17
Context18:17 20 Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior 21 for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 22 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 20:12
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 23 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? 24
1 Samuel 20:21
Context20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; 25 get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.
1 Samuel 20:42
Context20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”(21:1)
26 Then David 27 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 28 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 29 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 30 the priests of the Lord.
1 Samuel 25:13
Context25:13 Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.
1 Samuel 25:39
Context25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! 31 The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” 32 Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
1 Samuel 27:1
Context27:1 David thought to himself, 33 “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”
1 Samuel 30:21
Context30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, 34 those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.
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 “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.
9 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
12 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
13 tn Heb “and said.”
14 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
15 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
16 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jesse) has been specified in the translation both here and in v. 12 for clarity.
18 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
19 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
20 tc Much of the
21 tn Heb “son of valor.”
22 tn Heb “arose and went.”
23 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
24 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
25 tn Heb “from you and here.”
26 sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “runners.”
29 tn Heb “their hand is.”
30 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
31 tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”
32 tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the
33 tn Heb “said to his heart.”
34 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.
