Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:9 
Context1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. 1 (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair 2 by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
1 Samuel 2:13
Context2:13 Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: 3 Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork 4 in his hand.
1 Samuel 2:16
Context2:16 If the individual said to him, “First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say, “No! 5 Hand it over right now! If you don’t, I will take it forcibly!”
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 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 6 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 9:9
Context9:9 (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.)
1 Samuel 10:19
Context10:19 But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said, “No! 7 Appoint a king over us.” Now take your positions before the Lord by your tribes and by your clans.’”
1 Samuel 11:5
Context11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the 8 oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about 9 the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 12:2
Context12:2 Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.
1 Samuel 13:4
Context13:4 All Israel heard this message, 10 “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive 11 to the Philistines!” So the people were summoned to join 12 Saul at Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13:12
Context13:12 I thought, 13 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 14 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 14:4
Context14:4 Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.
1 Samuel 14:33
Context14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! 15 Roll a large stone over here to me.”
1 Samuel 15:3
Context15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 16 them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 17:12
Context17:12 17 Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem 18 in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. 19
1 Samuel 18:10
Context18:10 The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre 20 that day. There was a spear in Saul’s hand,
1 Samuel 18:22
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.”
1 Samuel 19:17-18
Context19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’” 21
19:18 Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.
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. 22 You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
1 Samuel 20:31
Context20:31 For as long as 23 this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men 24 and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” 25
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. 26
Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.
1 Samuel 24:19
Context24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.
1 Samuel 24:21
Context24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name 27 that you will not kill 28 my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”
1 Samuel 25:7
Context25:7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:17
Context25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. 29 He is such a wicked person 30 that no one tells him anything!”
1 Samuel 25:21
Context25:21 Now David had been thinking, 31 “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
1 Samuel 26:8
Context26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear 32 right through him into the ground with one swift jab! 33 A second jab won’t be necessary!”
1 Samuel 26:11
Context26:11 But may the Lord prevent me from extending my hand against the Lord’s chosen one! Now take the spear by Saul’s head and the jug of water, and let’s get out of here!”
1 Samuel 28:2-3
Context28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard 34 from now on.” 35
28:3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown. 36 In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums 37 and magicians 38 from the land.
1 Samuel 28:22
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.”
1 tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.
2 tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
3 tn Heb “the habit of the priests with the people [was this].”
4 sn The Hebrew word occurs only twice in the OT, here and again in v. 14. Its exact meaning is not entirely clear, although from the context it appears to be a sacrificial tool used for retrieving things from boiling water.
5 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
7 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
8 tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
9 tn Heb “the matters of.”
10 tn The words “this message” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
11 tn Heb “stinks.” The figurative language indicates that Israel had become repulsive to the Philistines.
12 tn Heb “were summoned after.”
13 tn Heb “said.”
14 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
15 tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.
16 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
17 tc Some
18 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
19 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
20 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
21 tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26.
22 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
23 tn Heb “all the days that.”
24 tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
25 tn Heb “a son of death.”
26 tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).
27 tn Heb “by the
28 tn Heb “cut off.”
29 tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”
30 tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”
31 tn Heb “said.”
32 tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.
33 tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”
34 tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”
35 tn Heb “all the days.”
36 tn Heb “in Ramah, even in his city.”
37 tn The Hebrew term translated “mediums” actually refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits (see 2 Kgs 21:6). In v. 7 the witch of Endor is called the owner of a ritual pit. See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401. Here the term refers by metonymy to the owner of such a pit (see H. A. Hoffner, TDOT 1:133).
38 sn See Isa 8:19 for another reference to magicians who attempted to conjure up underworld spirits.
