Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:12 
Context1:12 As she continued praying to 1 the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.
1 Samuel 1:27
Context1:27 I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.
1 Samuel 2:11-12
Context2:11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of 2 Eli the priest.
2:12 The sons of Eli were wicked men. 3 They did not recognize the Lord’s authority. 4
1 Samuel 2:18
Context2:18 Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 2:24
Context2:24 This ought not to be, 5 my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.
1 Samuel 3:19-21
Context3:19 Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. 6 3:20 All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord. 3:21 Then the Lord again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the Lord had revealed himself to Samuel 7 through the word of the Lord. 8
1 Samuel 8:6
Context8:6 But this request displeased Samuel, for 9 they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord.
1 Samuel 8:10
Context8:10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.
1 Samuel 8:21
Context8:21 So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord. 10
1 Samuel 10:6
Context10:6 Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.
1 Samuel 11:13
Context11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”
1 Samuel 12:16
Context12:16 “So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.
1 Samuel 14:23
Context14:23 So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven. 11
1 Samuel 15:25
Context15:25 Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship 12 the Lord.”
1 Samuel 16:6
Context16:6 When they arrived, Samuel 13 noticed 14 Eliab and said to himself, 15 “Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!” 16
1 Samuel 18:12
Context18:12 So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 18:14
Context18:14 Now David achieved success in all he did, 17 for the Lord was with him.
1 Samuel 18:29
Context18:29 Saul became even more afraid of him. 18 Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on. 19
1 Samuel 19:6
Context19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice 20 and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19:16
Context19:16 When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.
1 Samuel 20:23
Context20:23 With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!” 21
1 Samuel 22:10
Context22:10 He inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
1 Samuel 23:18
Context23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 23:21
Context23:21 Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 28:10
Context28:10 But Saul swore an oath to her by the Lord, “As surely as the Lord lives, you will not incur guilt in this matter!”
1 tc Heb “before.” Many medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “to.”
2 tn Heb “with [or “before”] the face of.”
3 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness.”
4 tn Heb “they did not know the
5 tn Heb “no.”
6 tn Heb “and he did not cause to fall from all his words to the ground.”
7 tc The LXX has a lengthy addition here: “And Samuel was acknowledged to be a prophet of the
8 tn The chapter division at this point is inappropriate. 1 Sam 4:1a is best understood as the conclusion to chap. 3 rather than the beginning of chap. 4.
9 tn Heb “when.”
10 tn Heb “and Samuel heard all the words of the people and he spoke them into the ears of the
11 tc The LXX includes the following words: “And all the people were with Saul, about ten thousand men. And the battle extended to the entire city on mount Ephraim.”
12 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “saw.”
15 tn Heb “said”; the words “to himself” are implied, given the secrecy surrounding Samuel’s mission to Bethlehem (v. 2).
16 tn Heb “his anointed one.”
17 tn Heb “in all his ways.”
18 tn Heb “of David.” In the translation the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun for stylistic reasons.
19 tc The final sentence of v. 29 is absent in most LXX
tn Heb “all the days.”
20 tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”
21 tc Heb “the
