Discovery Box1 Samuel 10:2 
Context10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 1 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 10:21
Context10:21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.
1 Samuel 14:41
Context14:41 Then Saul said, “O Lord God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O Lord God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim.” 2 Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated. 3
1 Samuel 17:55
Context17:55 4 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 18:21
Context18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 5
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 6 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 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 7 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 8 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 26:5
Context26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
1 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
2 tc Heb “to the
sn The Urim and Thummim were used for lot casting in ancient Israel. Their exact identity is uncertain; they may have been specially marked stones drawn from a bag. See Exod 28:30; Lev 8:8, and Deut 33:8, as well as the discussion in R. W. Klein, 1 Samuel (WBC), 140.
3 tn Heb “went out.”
4 tc Most LXX
5 tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
6 tn Heb “arose and went.”
7 tn Heb “by giving.”
8 tn Heb “rises up against.”
