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 2:29
Context2:29 Why are you 5 scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? 6 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 9:27
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. 7 Samuel then said, 8 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
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 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 14:24
Context14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
1 Samuel 15:6
Context15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away 10 with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 11 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 12 People look on the outward appearance, 13 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 14 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 15 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 16 for yourselves a man so he may come down 17 to me!
1 Samuel 17:28
Context17:28 When David’s 18 oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry 19 with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! 20 You have come down here to watch the battle!”
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 17:55
Context17:55 21 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”
1 Samuel 18:17
Context18:17 22 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 23 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 18:21
Context18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 24
1 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Taking an oath, David again 25 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 26 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 27 ‘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 20:13
Context20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know 28 and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. 29 May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.
1 Samuel 20:29
Context20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 30 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 31 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 32 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 21:5
Context21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ 33 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
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 34 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 35
1 Samuel 24:4
Context24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” 36 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
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! 37 The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” 38 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? 39 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 40
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 tc The MT has a plural “you” here, but the LXX and a Qumran
6 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.
7 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
8 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
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 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).
11 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
12 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.
13 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
16 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.
17 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
18 tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”
20 tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”
21 tc Most LXX
22 tc Much of the
23 tn Heb “son of valor.”
24 tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
25 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
26 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
27 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
28 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
29 tn Heb “in peace.”
30 tn Heb “send me.”
31 tn Heb “commanded.”
32 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
33 tn Heb “servants’.”
34 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
35 tn Heb “small or great.”
36 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
37 tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”
38 tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the
39 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
40 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
