Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:7-8 
Context1:7 Peninnah 1 would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah 2 went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah 3 would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat. 1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? 4 Am I not better to you than ten 5 sons?”
1 Samuel 2:21
Context2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary. 6
1 Samuel 2:36
Context2:36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money 7 and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”
1 Samuel 3:5-6
Context3:5 Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli 8 said, “I didn’t call you. Go back and lie down.” So he went back and lay down. 3:6 The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli 9 said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”
1 Samuel 3:8
Context3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.
1 Samuel 5:3
Context5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, 10 Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.
1 Samuel 5:10
Context5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.
But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here 11 to kill our 12 people!”
1 Samuel 6:7
Context6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.
1 Samuel 6:21
Context6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”
1 Samuel 7:6
Context7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed 13 there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led 14 the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 7:9
Context7:9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb 15 and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord on Israel’s behalf, and the Lord answered him.
1 Samuel 8:5
Context8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead 16 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 9:3
Context9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, 17 so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go 18 look for the donkeys.” 19
1 Samuel 9:14
Context9:14 So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction 20 to go up to the high place.
1 Samuel 11:2-3
Context11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”
11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”
1 Samuel 11:5
Context11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the 21 oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about 22 the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 23 they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.
1 Samuel 12:11
Context12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, 24 Barak, 25 Jephthah, and Samuel, 26 and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
1 Samuel 12:19
Context12:19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” 27
1 Samuel 13:4
Context13:4 All Israel heard this message, 28 “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive 29 to the Philistines!” So the people were summoned to join 30 Saul at Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13:12
Context13:12 I thought, 31 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 32 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 13:22
Context13:22 So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
1 Samuel 14:17
Context14:17 So Saul said to the army that was with him, “Muster the troops and see who is no longer with us.” When they mustered the troops, 33 Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
1 Samuel 14:43
Context14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” 34
1 Samuel 14:52
Context14:52 There was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. So whenever Saul saw anyone who was a warrior or a brave individual, he would conscript him.
1 Samuel 15:3
Context15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 35 them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 Saul 36 again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”
1 Samuel 15:33
Context15:33 Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the Lord.
1 Samuel 16:5
Context16:5 He replied, “Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
1 Samuel 16:13
Context16:13 So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel 16:23
Context16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. 37
1 Samuel 18:5
Context18:5 On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants. 38
1 Samuel 18:22-23
Context18:22 Then Saul instructed his servants, “Tell David secretly, ‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.” 18:23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately 39 to David. David replied, “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”
1 Samuel 18:30
Context18:30 40 Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.
1 Samuel 19:20
Context19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 20:5
Context20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. 41 You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
1 Samuel 20:27
Context20:27 But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David’s place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has Jesse’s son not come to the meal yesterday or today?”
1 Samuel 22:1
Context22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family 42 learned about it, they went down there to him.
1 Samuel 22:5
Context22:5 Then Gad the prophet said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
1 Samuel 22:18
Context22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five 43 men who wore the linen ephod.
1 Samuel 23:13
Context23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. 44 When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.
1 Samuel 23:24
Context23:24 So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.
1 Samuel 24:21
Context24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name 45 that you will not kill 46 my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”
1 Samuel 25:18
Context25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers 47 of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs 48 of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys
1 Samuel 26:7
Context26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.
1 Samuel 26:25
Context26:25 Saul replied to David, “May you be rewarded, 49 my son David! You will without question be successful!” 50 So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 Samuel 28:8-9
Context28:8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, “Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.” 51
28:9 But the woman said to him, “Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed 52 the mediums and magicians 53 from the land! Why are you trapping me 54 so you can put me to death?”
1 Samuel 28:22-23
Context28:22 Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”
28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged 55 him to eat, so he gave in. 56 He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
1 Samuel 29:10
Context29:10 So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you. 57 When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.” 58
1 tn The MT has a masculine form of the verb here יַעֲשֶׂה (ya’aseh, “he used to do”); the subject in that case would presumably be Elkanah. But this leads to an abrupt change of subject in the following part of the verse, where the subject is the rival wife who caused Hannah anxiety. In light of v. 6 one expects the statement of v. 7 to refer to the ongoing actions of the rival wife: “she used to behave in this way year after year.” Some scholars have proposed retaining the masculine form but changing the vocalization of the verb so as to read a Niphal rather than a Qal (i.e., יֵעֲשֶׂה, ye’aseh, “so it used to be done”). But the problem here is lack of precedent for such a use of the Niphal of this verb. It seems best in light of the context to understand the reference to be to Hannah’s rival Peninnah and to read here, with the Syriac Peshitta, a feminine form of the verb (“she used to do”). In the translation the referent (Peninnah) has been specified for clarity.
2 tn Heb “she”; the referent (Hannah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “she”; the referent (Peninnah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “why is your heart displeased?”
5 sn Like the number seven, the number ten is sometimes used in the OT as an ideal number (see, for example, Dan 1:20, Zech 8:23).
6 tn Heb “with the
7 tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”
11 tn Heb “to me.”
12 tn Heb “my.”
13 tn Heb “said.”
14 tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”
15 tn Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.”
16 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
17 tn Heb “became lost.”
18 tn Heb “and arise, go.”
19 tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.”
20 tn Heb “to meet them.” This may indicate purpose on Samuel’s part. The next sentence indicates that the meeting was by design, not just an accident.
21 tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
22 tn Heb “the matters of.”
23 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
24 sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.
25 tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”
26 tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”
27 tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”
28 tn The words “this message” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
29 tn Heb “stinks.” The figurative language indicates that Israel had become repulsive to the Philistines.
30 tn Heb “were summoned after.”
31 tn Heb “said.”
32 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
33 tn Heb “and they mustered the troops, and look!”
34 tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).
35 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
36 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
37 tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”
38 tn Heb “it was good in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.”
39 tn Heb “in the ears of.”
40 tc Verse 30 is absent in most LXX
41 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
42 tn Heb “house.”
43 tc The number is confused in the Greek
44 tn Heb “they went where they went.”
45 tn Heb “by the
46 tn Heb “cut off.”
47 tn Heb “skins.”
48 sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.
49 tn Heb “blessed.”
50 tn Heb “you will certainly do and also you will certainly be able.” The infinitive absolutes placed before the finite verbal forms lend emphasis to the statement.
51 tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”
52 tn Heb “how he has cut off.”
54 tn Heb “my life.”
55 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
56 tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”
57 tc The LXX and a couple of Old Latin
58 tn Heb “when you get up early in the morning and you have light, go.”
