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 4:4
Context4:4 So the army 2 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
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. 3
1 Samuel 13:2
Context13:2 Saul selected for himself three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel; 4 the remaining thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 5 He sent all the rest of the people back home. 6
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 7 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 8 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 9 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 20:42
Context20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”(21:1)
10 Then David 11 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 25:13
Context25:13 Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.
1 Samuel 30:21
Context30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, 12 those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.
1 tn Heb “from days to days.”
2 tn Or “people.”
3 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.”
4 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
5 tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “each one to his tents.”
7 tn Heb “a thing.”
8 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
9 tn Heb “arose and went.”
10 sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.
