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 6:3
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 5 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 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. 6 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 7 from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 20:12
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 8 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? 9
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; 10 get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.
1 Samuel 20:29
Context20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 11 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 12 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 13 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
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 25:34
Context25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
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 LXX and a Qumran
6 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.
7 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
8 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
9 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
10 tn Heb “from you and here.”
11 tn Heb “send me.”
12 tn Heb “commanded.”
13 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
