Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:3 
Context1:3 Year after year 1 this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.
1 Samuel 2:22
Context2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel 2 and how they used to have sex with 3 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 2:25
Context2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons 4 would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided 5 to kill them.
1 Samuel 4:19
Context4:19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.
1 Samuel 5:4
Context5:4 But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon’s body was left intact. 6
1 Samuel 6:3
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 7 the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”
1 Samuel 6:9
Context6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 9:7
Context9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, 8 we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
1 Samuel 11:7
Context11:7 He took a pair 9 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 10
1 Samuel 12:3
Context12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. 11 Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, 12 and I will return it to you!”
1 Samuel 13:14
Context13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out 13 for himself a man who is loyal to him 14 and the Lord has appointed 15 him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”
1 Samuel 14:6
Context14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene 16 for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”
1 Samuel 14:34
Context14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. 17
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 18
1 Samuel 16:1
Context16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 19 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 20 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 21
1 Samuel 16:16
Context16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 22 and you will feel better.” 23
1 Samuel 18:25
Context18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his 24 enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
1 Samuel 19:5
Context19:5 He risked his life 25 when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 26 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 27 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 24:6
Context24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, 28 by extending my hand against him. After all, 29 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 30
1 Samuel 26:5
Context26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
1 Samuel 26:16
Context26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! 31 As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! 32 Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
1 Samuel 27:1
Context27:1 David thought to himself, 33 “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”
1 Samuel 27:11
Context27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time 34 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 29:3-4
Context29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? 35 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 36
29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 37 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 38 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 39
1 Samuel 31:7
Context31:7 When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
1 tn Heb “from days to days.”
2 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
3 tn Heb “lie with.”
4 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “desired.”
6 tc Heb “only Dagon was left.” We should probably read the word גֵּו (gev, “back”) before Dagon, understanding it to have the sense of the similar word גְּוִיָּה (gÿviyyah, “body”). This variant is supported by the following evidence: The LXX has ἡ ῥάχις (Jh rJacis, “the back” or “trunk”); the Syriac Peshitta has wegusmeh (“and the body of”); the Targum has gupyeh (“the body of”); the Vulgate has truncus (“the trunk of,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT). On the strength of this evidence the present translation employs the phrase “Dagon’s body.”
7 tc The LXX and a Qumran
8 tn Heb “look.”
9 tn Heb “yoke.”
10 tn Heb “like one man.”
11 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
12 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
13 tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.
14 tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.
15 tn Heb “commanded.”
16 tn Heb “act.”
17 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
18 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
19 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
21 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
22 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
23 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
24 tn Heb “the king’s.”
25 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
26 tn Heb “by giving.”
27 tn Heb “rises up against.”
28 tn Heb “anointed.”
29 tn Or “for.”
30 tn Heb “anointed.”
31 tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”
32 tn Heb “you are sons of death.”
33 tn Heb “said to his heart.”
34 tn Heb “all the days.”
35 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
36 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
37 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
38 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
39 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
