Discovery Box1 Samuel 13:12 
Context13:12 I thought, 1 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 2 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 25:8
Context25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come 3 at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants 4 and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” 5
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 tn Heb “said.”
2 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
3 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
4 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
5 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”
