Discovery Box1 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 1 his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered 2 her.
1 Samuel 2:21
Context2:21 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. 3
1 Samuel 3:1
Context3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. 4 Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.
1 Samuel 3:7
Context3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord; the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.
1 Samuel 7:1
Context7:1 Then the people 5 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 10:22
Context10:22 So they inquired again of the Lord, “Has the man arrived here yet?” The Lord said, “He has hidden himself among the equipment.” 6
1 Samuel 12:7
Context12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you 7 before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors. 8
1 Samuel 12:21
Context12:21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty. 9
1 Samuel 12:23
Context12:23 As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.
1 Samuel 14:38-39
Context14:38 Then Saul said, “All you leaders of the army come here. Find out 10 how this sin occurred today. 14:39 For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. 11
1 Samuel 15:1
Context15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. 12
1 Samuel 15:13
Context15:13 When Samuel came to him, 13 Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”
1 Samuel 15:19
Context15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed 14 the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” 15
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 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.” 16
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 23:2
Context23:2 So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”
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 26:10
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.
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 Samuel 28:18
Context28:18 Since you did not obey the Lord 17 and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.
1 tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “with the
4 tn Heb “before Eli.”
5 tn Heb “men.”
6 tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”
7 tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”
8 tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”
9 tn Or “useless” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “nothing”; NASB “futile”; TEV “are not real.”
10 tn Heb “know and see.”
11 tn Heb “and there was no one answering from all the army.”
12 tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the
13 tn Heb “to Saul.”
14 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
15 tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the
16 tn Or “Go, and may the
17 tn Heb “listen to the voice of the
