Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:16 
Context1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, 1 for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”
1 Samuel 2:3
Context2:3 Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, 2
letting proud talk come out of your mouth!
For the Lord is a God who knows;
he 3 evaluates what people do.
1 Samuel 2:32
Context2:32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! 4 Israel will experience blessings, 5 but there will not be an old man in your 6 house for all time. 7
1 Samuel 2:34
Context2:34 This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, 8 Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!
1 Samuel 3:10
Context3:10 Then the Lord came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!”
1 Samuel 6:6
Context6:6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? 9 When God 10 treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way? 11
1 Samuel 8:18
Context8:18 In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” 12
1 Samuel 12:6
Context12:6 Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors 13 up from the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:24
Context12:24 However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!
1 Samuel 14:7
Context14:7 His armor bearer said to him, “Do everything that is on your mind. 14 Do as you’re inclined. I’m with you all the way!” 15
1 Samuel 14:19
Context14:19 While 16 Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines’ camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”
1 Samuel 17:18
Context17:18 Also take these ten portions of cheese to their commanding officer. 17 Find out how your brothers are doing 18 and bring back their pledge that they received the goods. 19
1 Samuel 17:44
Context17:44 The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!” 20
1 Samuel 17:58
Context17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” 21
1 Samuel 22:23
Context22:23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid! Whoever 22 seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.”
1 Samuel 23:4
Context23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”
1 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning 23 to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.
1 Samuel 23:20
Context23:20 Now at your own discretion, 24 O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”
1 Samuel 24:15-16
Context24:15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”
24:16 When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Then Saul wept loudly. 25
1 Samuel 24:18
Context24:18 You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.
1 Samuel 24:20
Context24:20 Now look, I realize that you will in fact be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.
1 Samuel 25:27
Context25:27 Now let this present 26 that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow 27 my lord.
1 Samuel 25:33
Context25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded 28 for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!
1 Samuel 25:41
Context25:41 She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash 29 the feet of the servants of my lord.”
1 Samuel 26:17
Context26:17 When Saul recognized David’s voice, he said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” David replied, “Yes, it’s my voice, my lord the king.”
1 Samuel 26:24
Context26:24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, 30 may the Lord value my life 31 and deliver me from all danger.”
1 Samuel 28:16
Context28:16 Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?
1 tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”
2 tn Heb “proudly, proudly.” If MT is original, the repetition of the word is for emphasis, stressing the arrogance of those addressed. However, a few medieval Hebrew manuscripts and some other textual witnesses do not reflect the repetition, suggesting that the Hebrew text may be dittographic.
3 tc The MT (Qere) reads “and by him actions are weighed.” The translation assumes that reading of the Qere וְלוֹ (vÿlo, “and by him”), which is supported by many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “you will see [the] trouble of [the] dwelling place.” Since God’s dwelling place/sanctuary is in view, the pronoun is supplied in the translation (see v. 29).
5 tn Heb “in all which he does good with Israel.”
6 tc The LXX and a Qumran manuscript have the first person pronoun “my” here.
7 tn Heb “all the days.”
8 tn Heb “and this to you [is] the sign which will come to both of your sons.”
9 tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”
12 tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”
13 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 8).
14 tn Heb “in your heart.”
15 tn Heb “Look, I am with you, according to your heart.” See the note at 13:14.
16 tn Or perhaps “until.”
17 tn Heb “officer of the thousand.”
18 tn Heb “and your brothers, observe with respect to welfare.”
19 tn Heb “and their pledge take.” This probably refers to some type of confirmation that the goods arrived safely. See R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 177. Cf. NIV “bring back some assurance”; NCV “some proof to show me they are all right”; NLT “bring me back a letter from them.”
20 tc Many medieval Hebrew
21 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
22 tn Or “the one who.” This may refer specifically to Saul, in which case David acknowledges that Abiathar’s life is endangered because of his allegiance to David. The translation assumes that the statement is more generalized, meaning that any enemy of Abiathar is an enemy of David. In other words, David promises that he will protect Abiathar with his very own life.
23 tn Heb “seeking.”
24 tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul.”
25 tn Heb “lifted his voice and wept.”
26 tn Heb “blessing.”
27 tn Heb “are walking at the feet of.”
28 tn Heb “blessed.”
29 tn Heb “Here is your maidservant, for a lowly servant to wash.”
30 tn Heb “your life was great this day in my eyes.”
31 tn Heb “may my life be great in the eyes of the
