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 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 17:46
Context17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
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.” 4
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)
5 Then David 6 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 21:2
Context21:2 David replied to Ahimelech the priest, “The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.’ 7 I have told my soldiers 8 to wait at a certain place. 9
1 Samuel 22:15
Context22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 10 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 11
1 Samuel 25:29
Context25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag 12 of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
1 Samuel 26:20
Context26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge 13 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 29:8
Context29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
1 Samuel 30:15
Context30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
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 The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
5 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.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
8 tn Heb “servants.”
9 tn The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8, and in Ruth 4:1, where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13.
10 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
11 tn Heb “small or great.”
12 tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”
13 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
