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 1:22
Context1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. 4 Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”
1 Samuel 2:15
Context2:15 Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, “Hand over some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t take boiled meat from you, but only raw.” 5
1 Samuel 3:6
Context3:6 The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli 6 said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”
1 Samuel 3:9
Context3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 5:3
Context5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, 7 Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.
1 Samuel 5:9
Context5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked 8 that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city 9 with sores. 10
1 Samuel 6:14
Context6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:10
Context7:10 As Samuel was offering burnt offerings, the Philistines approached to do battle with Israel. 11 But on that day the Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines. He caused them to panic, and they were defeated by 12 Israel.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 13 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 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king 14 is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” 15 They said, “He is witness!”
1 Samuel 12:20
Context12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. 16 However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Samuel 14:3
Context14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying 17 an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.
1 Samuel 14:13
Context14:13 Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines, 18 while his armor bearer came along behind him and killed them. 19
1 Samuel 14:33
Context14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! 20 Roll a large stone over here to me.”
1 Samuel 15:12
Context15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where 21 he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 22 and went down to Gilgal.” 23
1 Samuel 15:17
Context15:17 Samuel said, “Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord chose 24 you as king over Israel.
1 Samuel 15:22
Context15:22 Then Samuel said,
“Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as he does in obedience? 25
Certainly, 26 obedience 27 is better than sacrifice;
paying attention is better than 28 the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 15:33
Context15:33 Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the Lord.
1 Samuel 15:35
Context15:35 Until the day he 29 died Samuel did not see Saul again. Samuel did, however, mourn for Saul, but the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 16:5
Context16:5 He replied, “Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
1 Samuel 16:18
Context16:18 One of his attendants replied, 30 “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem 31 who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior 32 and is articulate 33 and handsome, 34 for the Lord is with him.”
1 Samuel 20:8
Context20:8 You must be loyal 35 to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name. 36 If I am guilty, 37 you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
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; 38 get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.
1 Samuel 21:6
Context21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
1 Samuel 25:31
Context25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt 39 for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, 40 please remember your servant.”
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 41 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 30:8
Context30:8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!”
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 The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “living.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”
8 tn Heb “the hand of the
9 tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”
10 tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”
11 tn Heb “approached for battle against Israel.”
12 tn Heb “before.”
13 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
14 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
15 tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”
16 tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”
17 tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
18 tn Heb “and they fell before Jonathan.”
19 tn Heb “and the one carrying his equipment was killing after him.”
20 tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.
21 tn Heb “and look.”
22 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”
23 tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin
24 tn Heb “anointed.”
25 tn Heb “as [in] listening to the voice of the
26 tn Heb “look.”
27 tn Heb “listening.”
28 tn The expression “is better” is understood here by ellipsis (see the immediately preceding statement).
29 tn That is, Samuel.
30 tn Heb “answered and said.”
31 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
32 tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”
33 tn Heb “discerning of word.”
34 tn Heb “a man of form.”
35 tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”
36 tn Heb “for into a covenant of the
37 tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”
38 tn Heb “from you and here.”
39 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
40 tn Heb “and the
41 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
