Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:27 
Context1:27 I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.
1 Samuel 2:26
Context2:26 Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.
1 Samuel 3:19-20
Context3:19 Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. 1 3:20 All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.
1 Samuel 6:1
Context6:1 When the ark of the Lord had been in the land 2 of the Philistines for seven months, 3
1 Samuel 7:5
Context7:5 Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf.”
1 Samuel 8:10
Context8:10 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.
1 Samuel 11:13
Context11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”
1 Samuel 12:16
Context12:16 “So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.
1 Samuel 16:6
Context16:6 When they arrived, Samuel 4 noticed 5 Eliab and said to himself, 6 “Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!” 7
1 Samuel 16:8
Context16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel. 8 But Samuel 9 said, “The Lord has not chosen this one, either.”
1 Samuel 20:14
Context20:14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!
1 Samuel 20:23
Context20:23 With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!” 10
1 Samuel 26:19
Context26:19 So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may he take delight in 11 an offering. But if men have instigated this, 12 may they be cursed before the Lord! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the Lord’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go on, serve other gods!’
1 tn Heb “and he did not cause to fall from all his words to the ground.”
2 tn Heb “field.”
3 tc The LXX adds “and their land swarmed with mice.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “saw.”
6 tn Heb “said”; the words “to himself” are implied, given the secrecy surrounding Samuel’s mission to Bethlehem (v. 2).
7 tn Heb “his anointed one.”
8 tn Heb “and caused him to pass before.”
9 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 9); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tc Heb “the
11 tn Heb “may he smell.” The implication is that Saul should seek to appease God, for such divine instigation to evil would a sign of God’s disfavor. For a fuller discussion of this passage see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 19-21.
12 tn Heb “but if the sons of men.”
