Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:14 
Context1:14 So he 1 said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”
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 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 13:9
Context13:9 So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 14:18
Context14:18 So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ephod,” 2 for he was at that time wearing the ephod. 3
1 Samuel 16:17
Context16:17 So Saul said to his servants, “Find 4 me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”
1 Samuel 16:19
Context16:19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is out with the sheep.
1 Samuel 20:16
Context20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant 5 with the house of David. 6
1 Samuel 20:24
Context20:24 So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.
1 Samuel 21:10
Context21:10 So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.
1 Samuel 23:8
Context23:8 So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men. 7
1 Samuel 23:28
Context23:28 So Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. Therefore that place is called Sela Hammahlekoth. 8
1 Samuel 27:2
Context27:2 So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.
1 Samuel 29:7
Context29:7 So turn and leave 9 in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!” 10
1 tn Heb “Eli.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.
2 tc Heb “the ark of God.” It seems unlikely that Saul would call for the ark, which was several miles away in Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Sam 7:2). The LXX and an Old Latin
3 tc Heb “for the ark of God was in that day, and the sons of Israel.” The translation follows the text of some Greek manuscripts. See the previous note.
4 tn Heb “see.”
5 tn Heb “cut.” The object of the verb (“covenant”) must be supplied.
6 tn The word order is different in the Hebrew text, which reads “and Jonathan cut with the house of David, and the
7 tn Heb “So Saul mustered all his army for battle to go down to Keilah to besiege against David and his men.”
8 sn The name הַמַּחְלְקוֹת סֶלַע (Sela Hammakhleqoth) probably means “Rock of Divisions” in Hebrew, in the sense that Saul and David parted company there (cf. NAB “Gorge of Divisions”; TEV “Separation Hill”). This etymology assumes that the word derives from the Hebrew root II חלק (khlq, “to divide”; HALOT 322 s.v. II חלק). However, there is another root I חלק, which means “to be smooth or slippery” (HALOT 322 s.v. I חלק). If the word is taken from this root, the expression would mean “Slippery Rock.”
9 tn Heb “go.”
10 tn Heb “and you must not do evil in the eyes of the leaders of the Philistines.”
