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 9:6
Context9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 5 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 6
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 7 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 8 People look on the outward appearance, 9 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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 10 and you will feel better.” 11
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; 12 get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.
1 Samuel 24:11
Context24:11 Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning 13 evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.
1 Samuel 26:16
Context26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! 14 As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! 15 Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
1 Samuel 26:20
Context26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge 16 in the hill country.”
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 The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
6 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
7 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
10 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
11 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
12 tn Heb “from you and here.”
13 tn Heb “there is not in my hand.”
14 tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”
15 tn Heb “you are sons of death.”
16 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
