Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:2 
Context1:2 He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
1 Samuel 1:4
Context1:4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
1 Samuel 1:28
Context1:28 Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they 1 worshiped the Lord there.
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 2:9
Context2:9 He watches over 4 his holy ones, 5
but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,
for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.
1 Samuel 2:23
Context2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these 6 people.
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 3:15
Context3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.
1 Samuel 5:6
Context5:6 The Lord attacked 7 the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of 8 both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. 9
1 Samuel 7:8
Context7:8 The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep 10 crying out to the Lord our 11 God so that he may save us 12 from the hand of the Philistines!”
1 Samuel 7:12
Context7:12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. 13 He named it Ebenezer, 14 saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”
1 Samuel 8:15-16
Context8:15 He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators 15 and his servants. 8:16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
1 Samuel 9:12
Context9:12 They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.
1 Samuel 9:17-18
Context9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, 16 “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.” 9:18 As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
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.” 17
1 Samuel 12:22
Context12:22 The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. 18 The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.
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 13:8
Context13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. 19 But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. 20
1 Samuel 13:10
Context13:10 Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 21
1 Samuel 14:35
Context14:35 Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.
1 Samuel 14:37
Context14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 14:49
Context14:49 The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua. 22 He had two daughters; the older one was named Merab and the younger Michal.
1 Samuel 15:29
Context15:29 The Preeminent One 23 of Israel does not go back on his word 24 or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.” 25
1 Samuel 16:12
Context16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. 26 Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”
1 Samuel 17:5
Context17:5 He had a bronze helmet on his head and was wearing scale body armor. The weight of his bronze body armor was five thousand shekels. 27
1 Samuel 17:30
Context17:30 Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, 28 but they 29 gave him the same answer as before.
1 Samuel 17:38
Context17:38 Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.
1 Samuel 17:54
Context17:54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, 30 and he put Goliath’s 31 weapons in his tent.
1 Samuel 17:57
Context17:57 So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. He still had the head of the Philistine in his hand.
1 Samuel 18:1
Context18:1 When David 32 had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. 33 Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. 34
1 Samuel 19:6
Context19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice 35 and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”
1 Samuel 19:8-9
Context19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 36 and they ran away from him. 19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon 37 Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. 38
1 Samuel 19:21
Context19:21 When it was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they prophesied too. So Saul sent messengers a third time, but they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 20:36
Context20:36 He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan 39 shot the arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel 20:40
Context20:40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, “Go, take these things back to the city.”
1 Samuel 22:4
Context22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time 40 that David was in the stronghold.
1 Samuel 22:19
Context22:19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.
1 Samuel 23:5
Context23:5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. 41 David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 24:15
Context24:15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”
1 Samuel 24:17
Context24:17 He said to David, “You are more innocent 42 than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!
1 Samuel 25:5
Context25:5 he 43 sent ten servants, 44 saying to them, 45 “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. 46
1 Samuel 25:14
Context25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet 47 our lord, but he screamed at them.
1 Samuel 25:37
Context25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, 48 his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. 49
1 Samuel 26:17-18
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.” 26:18 He went on to say, “Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done? 50
1 Samuel 30:9
Context30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. 51
1 Samuel 30:19
Context30:19 There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. 52 David brought everything back.
1 tn Heb “he,” apparently referring to Samuel (but cf. CEV “Elkanah”). A few medieval manuscripts and some ancient versions take the verb as plural (cf. TEV, NLT).
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 “guards the feet of.” The expression means that God watches over and protects the godly in all of their activities and movements. The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.
5 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
6 tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the
7 tn Heb “the hand of the
8 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 tc The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.”
tn Or “tumors” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “growths on their skin”; KJV “emerods”; NAB “hemorrhoids.”
10 tn Heb “don’t stop.”
11 tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”
12 tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
13 tn Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”
14 sn The name Ebenezer (אֶבֶן הָעָזֶר) means “stone of help” in Hebrew (cf. TEV); NLT adds the meaning parenthetically after the name.
15 tn Or “eunuchs” (so NAB); NIV “officials”; KJV, NASB, NRSV, NLT “officers.”
16 tn Heb “responded.”
17 tn Or “baggage” (so many English versions); KJV “stuff”; TEV “supplies.”
18 tn Heb “on account of his great name.”
19 tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.
20 tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”
21 tn Heb “to bless him.”
22 sn The list differs from others. In 1 Sam 31:2 (= 1 Chr 10:2), Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua are listed as Saul’s sons, while 1 Chr 8:33 and 9:39 list Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
23 tn Heb “splendor,” used here by metonymy as a title for the
24 tn Or perhaps “does not lie.”
25 sn This observation marks the preceding statement (v. 28) as an unconditional, unalterable decree. When God makes such a decree he will not alter it or change his mind. This does not mean that God never deviates from his stated intentions or changes his mind. On the contrary, several passages describe him as changing his mind. In fact, his willingness to do so is one of his fundamental divine attributes (see Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2). For a fuller discussion see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Change His Mind?” BSac 152 (1995): 387-99.
26 tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”
27 sn Although the exact weight of Goliath’s defensive body armor is difficult to estimate in terms of modern equivalency, it was obviously quite heavy. Driver, following Kennedy, suggests a modern equivalent of about 220 pounds (100 kg); see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 139. Klein, taking the shekel to be equal to .403 ounces, arrives at a somewhat smaller weight of about 126 pounds (57 kg); see R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 175. But by any estimate it is clear that Goliath presented himself as a formidable foe indeed.
28 tn Heb “and spoke according to this word.”
29 tn Heb “the people.”
30 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
31 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”
34 tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”
sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.
35 tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”
36 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
37 tn Heb “[was] to.”
38 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “all the days.”
41 tn Heb “and struck them down with a great blow.”
42 tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”
43 tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.
44 tn Or “young men.”
45 tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”
46 tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”
47 tn Heb “bless.”
48 tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”
49 tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.
50 tn Heb “What in my hand [is] evil?”
51 tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.
52 tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”
