Discovery Box1 Samuel 11:9 
Context11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.
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.’ 1 I have told my soldiers 2 to wait at a certain place. 3
1 Samuel 24:10
Context24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity 4 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 5
1 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
2 tn Heb “servants.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
5 tn Heb “anointed.”
