Discovery Box1 Samuel 12:3 
Context12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. 1 Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, 2 and I will return it to you!”
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 3 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 4
1 Samuel 26:16
Context26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! 5 As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! 6 Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
1 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
2 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
4 tn Heb “anointed.”
5 tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”
6 tn Heb “you are sons of death.”
