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 2:28-29
Context2:28 I chose your ancestor 5 from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites. 2:29 Why are you 6 scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? 7 You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’
1 Samuel 9:16
Context9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate 8 him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”
1 Samuel 10:2
Context10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 9 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 10 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 11 them into the hand of Israel!”
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. 12
1 Samuel 14:41
Context14:41 Then Saul said, “O Lord God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O Lord God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim.” 13 Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated. 14
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 15 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 16 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 17 for yourselves a man so he may come down 18 to me!
1 Samuel 17:45
Context17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!
1 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Taking an oath, David again 19 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 20 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 21 ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”
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)
22 Then David 23 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 21:9
Context21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to me!”
1 Samuel 22:15
Context22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 24 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 25
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 26 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 27 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 28 the priests of the Lord.
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, 29 by extending my hand against him. After all, 30 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 31
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 32 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 33
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! 34 The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” 35 Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
1 Samuel 29:3
Context29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? 36 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 37
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 “him”; the referent (Eli’s ancestor, i.e., Aaron) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tc The MT has a plural “you” here, but the LXX and a Qumran
7 tn Heb “which I commanded, dwelling place.” The noun is functioning as an adverbial accusative in relation to the verb. Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation.
8 tn Heb “anoint.”
9 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
10 tn Heb “a thing.”
11 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
12 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
13 tc Heb “to the
sn The Urim and Thummim were used for lot casting in ancient Israel. Their exact identity is uncertain; they may have been specially marked stones drawn from a bag. See Exod 28:30; Lev 8:8, and Deut 33:8, as well as the discussion in R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 140.
14 tn Heb “went out.”
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
17 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
18 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
19 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
20 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
21 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
22 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.
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
25 tn Heb “small or great.”
26 tn Heb “runners.”
27 tn Heb “their hand is.”
28 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
29 tn Heb “anointed.”
30 tn Or “for.”
31 tn Heb “anointed.”
32 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
33 tn Heb “anointed.”
34 tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”
35 tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the
36 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
37 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
