Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:15 
Context1:15 But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, 1 my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. 2 I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to 3 the Lord.
1 Samuel 1:19
Context1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with 4 his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered 5 her.
1 Samuel 2:1
Context“My heart rejoices in the Lord;
my horn 7 is exalted high because of the Lord.
I loudly denounce 8 my enemies,
for I am happy that you delivered me. 9
1 Samuel 2:10
Context2:10 The Lord shatters 10 his adversaries; 11
he thunders against them from 12 the heavens.
The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth.
He will strengthen 13 his king
and exalt the power 14 of his anointed one.” 15
1 Samuel 2:20-21
Context2:20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying, “May the Lord raise up for you descendants 16 from this woman to replace the one that she 17 dedicated to the Lord.” Then they would go to their 18 home. 2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary. 19
1 Samuel 3:8
Context3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.
1 Samuel 7:1
Context7:1 Then the people 20 of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:6
Context7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed 21 there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led 22 the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 23 they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.
1 Samuel 12:8
Context12:8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
1 Samuel 12:14
Context12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him 24 and not rebelling against what he says, 25 and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. 26
1 Samuel 12:20
Context12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. 27 However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Samuel 13:13
Context13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed 28 the commandment that the Lord your God gave 29 you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!
1 Samuel 15:20
Context15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed 30 the Lord! I went on the campaign 31 the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:26
Context15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
1 Samuel 16:2
Context16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you 32 and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
1 Samuel 17:37
Context17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” 33
1 Samuel 17:47
Context17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”
1 Samuel 23:11
Context23:11 Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, please inform your servant!”
Then the Lord said, “He will come down.”
1 Samuel 25:24-25
Context25:24 Falling at his feet, she said, “My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak with my lord! Please listen to the words of your servant! 25:25 My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means ‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! 34 But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent. 35
1 Samuel 25:31
Context25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt 36 for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, 37 please remember your servant.”
1 Samuel 26:10-11
Context26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away. 26:11 But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord’s chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul’s head and the jug of water, and let’s get out of here!”
1 Samuel 26:15
Context26:15 David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.
1 Samuel 28:19
Context28:19 The Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! 38 Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. 39 The Lord will also hand the army 40 of Israel over to the Philistines!”
1 tn Heb “No.”
2 tn Heb “I am a woman difficult of spirit.” The LXX has “for whom the day is difficult,” apparently mistaking the Hebrew word for “spirit” רוּחַ (ruakh) to be the word for “day” יוֹם (yom).
3 tn Heb “before.”
4 tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.
5 sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.
6 tn Heb “prayed and said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.
7 sn Horns of animals have always functioned as both offensive and defensive weapons for them. As a figure of speech the horn is therefore often used in the Bible as a symbol of human strength (see also in v. 10). The allusion in v. 1 to the horn being lifted high suggests a picture of an animal elevating its head in a display of strength or virility.
8 tn Heb “my mouth opens wide against.”
9 tn Heb “for I rejoice in your deliverance.”
10 tn The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.
11 tc The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.
12 tn The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”
13 tn The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.
14 tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.”
15 tc The LXX greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23-24.
sn The anointed one is the anticipated king of Israel, as the preceding line makes clear.
16 tn Heb “seed.”
17 tn The MT has a masculine verb here, but in light of the context the reference must be to Hannah. It is possible that the text of the MT is incorrect here (cf. the ancient versions), in which case the text should be changed to read either a passive participle or better, the third feminine singular of the verb. If the MT is correct here, perhaps the masculine is to be understood in a nonspecific and impersonal way, allowing for a feminine antecedent. In any case, the syntax of the MT is unusual here.
18 tn Heb “his.”
19 tn Heb “with the
20 tn Heb “men.”
21 tn Heb “said.”
22 tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”
23 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
24 tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”
25 tn Heb “the mouth of the
26 tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
27 tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”
28 tn Or “kept.”
29 tn Heb “commanded.”
30 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
31 tn Heb “journey.”
32 tn Heb “in your hand.”
33 tn Or “Go, and may the
34 tn Heb “and foolishness is with him.”
35 tn Heb “my lord’s servants, whom you sent.”
36 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
37 tn Heb “and the
38 tn Heb “And the
39 tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the LXX has here “and tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”
40 tn Heb “camp.”
