Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:7 
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 Samuel 3:5-6
Context3:5 Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli 4 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 5 said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”
1 Samuel 3:8-9
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. 3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 4:1
Context4:1 Samuel revealed the word of the Lord 6 to all Israel.
Then the Israelites went out to fight the Philistines. 7 They camped at Ebenezer, 8 and the Philistines camped at Aphek.
1 Samuel 7:7
Context7:7 When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the leaders of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the Israelites heard about this, they were afraid of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 9:8-10
Context9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel 9 of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” 10 9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.) 9:10 So Saul said to his servant, “That’s a good idea! 11 Come on. Let’s go.” So they went to the town where the man of God was.
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 12 to go up to the high place.
1 Samuel 9:26
Context9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.
1 Samuel 10:14
Context10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul 13 replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, 14 we went to Samuel.”
1 Samuel 11:11
Context11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them 15 down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 16 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 13:5
Context13:5 For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 17 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven.
1 Samuel 13:15
Context13:15 Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal 18 to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 19 Saul mustered the army that remained with him; there were about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 15:12
Context15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where 20 he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 21 and went down to Gilgal.” 22
1 Samuel 15:20
Context15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed 23 the Lord! I went on the campaign 24 the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
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 17:13
Context17:13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the 25 three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.
1 Samuel 17:37
Context17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” 26
1 Samuel 19:22
Context19:22 Finally Saul 27 himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”
1 Samuel 21:1
Context21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met 28 David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”
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 29 learned about it, they went down there to him.
1 Samuel 22:3
Context22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay 30 with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”
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 23:19
Context23:19 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?
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 24:3
Context24:3 He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. 31
Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.
1 Samuel 24:8
Context24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.
1 Samuel 25:36
Context25:36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time 32 and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing 33 until morning’s light.
1 Samuel 26:10
Context26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
1 Samuel 26:25
Context26:25 Saul replied to David, “May you be rewarded, 34 my son David! You will without question be successful!” 35 So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel 27:8
Context27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach 36 to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)
1 Samuel 30:2
Context30:2 They took captive the women who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.
1 Samuel 30:24
Context30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”
1 Samuel 31:12
Context31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went 37 to Jabesh, where they burned them.
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 “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “and the word of Samuel was.” The present translation understands Samuel to be the speaker of the divine word (“Samuel” is a subjective genitive in this case), although the statement could mean that he was the recipient of the divine word (“Samuel” is an objective genitive in this case) who in turn reported it to Israel.
7 tn Heb “and Israel went out to meet the Philistines for battle.”
8 tn Heb “the stone, the help.” The second noun is in apposition to the first one and apparently is the name by which the stone was known. Contrast the expression used in 5:1 and 7:12, where the first word lacks the definite article, unlike 4:1.
9 sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).
10 tn Heb “our way.”
11 tn Heb “your word is good.”
12 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.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”
15 tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.
16 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
17 tn Many English versions (e.g., KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV) read “30,000” here.
18 tc The LXX and two Old Latin
19 tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in the following verse).
20 tn Heb “and look.”
21 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”
22 tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin
23 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
24 tn Heb “journey.”
25 tn Heb “his.”
26 tn Or “Go, and may the
27 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 23). the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “trembled to meet.”
29 tn Heb “house.”
30 tn Heb “go forth.”
31 tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).
32 tn Heb “and the heart of Nabal was good upon him”; NASB, NRSV “Nabal’s heart was merry within him”; NIV “he was in high spirits”; NCV, TEV “was in a good mood”; CEV “was very drunk and feeling good.”
33 tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”
34 tn Heb “blessed.”
35 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.
36 tn Heb “from where you come.”
37 tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”
