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 4:13
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 2 the road, for he was very worried 3 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 4 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 9:6
Context9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 5 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 6
1 Samuel 9:16
Context9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate 7 him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”
1 Samuel 13:14
Context13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out 8 for himself a man who is loyal to him 9 and the Lord has appointed 10 him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”
1 Samuel 14:24
Context14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
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 11 and you will feel better.” 12
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 13 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 14 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 15 for yourselves a man so he may come down 16 to me!
1 Samuel 17:26
Context17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? 17 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:55
Context17:55 18 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”
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 19 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 20 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 21 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 22
1 Samuel 29:6
Context29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 23 serving 24 with me in the army. 25 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 26 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 27
1 tn Heb “from days to days.”
2 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
4 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
5 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
6 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
7 tn Heb “anoint.”
8 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.
9 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.
10 tn Heb “commanded.”
11 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
12 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
15 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
16 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
17 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
18 tc Most LXX
19 tn Heb “all the days.”
20 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
21 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
22 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
23 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
24 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
25 tn Heb “camp.”
26 tn Heb “eyes.”
27 tn Heb “good.”
