Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:20 
Context1:20 After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him. 1
1 Samuel 3:18
Context3:18 So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli 2 said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” 3
1 Samuel 10:27
Context10:27 But some wicked men 4 said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. 5
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. 6
1 Samuel 15:13
Context15:13 When Samuel came to him, 7 Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”
1 Samuel 16:12
Context16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. 8 Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”
1 Samuel 17:27
Context17:27 The soldiers 9 told him what had been promised, saying, 10 “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”
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 19:7
Context19:7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly. 11
1 Samuel 19:15
Context19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”
1 Samuel 20:17
Context20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. 12
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 25:1
Context25:1 Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran. 13
1 Samuel 30:11
Context30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.
1 tn Heb “because from the
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
4 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).
5 tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran
6 tn Heb “to bless him.”
7 tn Heb “to Saul.”
8 tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”
9 tn Heb “people.”
10 tn Heb “according to this word, saying.”
11 tn Heb “and he was before him as before.”
12 tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”
13 tc The LXX reads “Maon” here instead of “Paran,” perhaps because the following account of Nabal is said to be in Maon (v. 2). This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT). The MT, however, reads “Paran,” a location which would parallel this portion of David’s life with that of the nation Israel which also spent time in Paran (Num 10:12). Also, the desert of Paran was on the southern border of Judah’s territory and would be the most isolated location for hiding from Saul.
