Discovery Box1 Samuel 16:4 
Context16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. 1 When he arrived in Bethlehem, 2 the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They 3 said, “Do you come in peace?”
1 Samuel 16:18
Context16:18 One of his attendants replied, 4 “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem 5 who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior 6 and is articulate 7 and handsome, 8 for the Lord is with him.”
1 Samuel 17:12
Context17:12 9 Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem 10 in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. 11
1 Samuel 20:6
Context20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go 12 to his city Bethlehem, 13 for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’
1 tn Heb “said.”
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
3 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “answered and said.”
5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
6 tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”
7 tn Heb “discerning of word.”
8 tn Heb “a man of form.”
9 tc Some
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
11 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
12 tn Heb “to run.”
13 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
