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 13:12
Context13:12 I thought, 4 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 5 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 15:11
Context15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.
1 Samuel 15:20
Context15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed 6 the Lord! I went on the campaign 7 the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 25:11
Context25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
1 Samuel 26:21
Context26:21 Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value 8 this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!” 9
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 “said.”
5 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
6 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
7 tn Heb “journey.”
8 tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.”
9 tn Heb “and I have erred very greatly.”
