Discovery Box1 Samuel 12:11 
Context12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, 1 Barak, 2 Jephthah, and Samuel, 3 and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
1 Samuel 22:2
Context22:2 All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented 4 gathered around 5 him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.
1 Samuel 22:7
Context22:7 Saul said to his servants who were stationed around him, “Listen up, you Benjaminites! Is Jesse’s son giving fields and vineyards to all of you? Or is he making all of you 6 commanders and officers? 7
1 Samuel 23:13
Context23:13 So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. 8 When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.
1 Samuel 26:7
Context26:7 So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.
1 sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.
2 tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”
3 tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”
4 tn Heb “bitter of soul.”
5 tn Heb “to.”
6 tc The MT has “to all of you.” If this reading is correct, we have here an example of a prepositional phrase functioning as the equivalent of a dative of advantage, which is not impossible from a grammatical point of view. However, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate all have “and.” A conjunction rather than a preposition should probably be read on the front of this phrase.
7 tn Heb “officers of a thousand and officers of a hundred.”
8 tn Heb “they went where they went.”
