Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:14-15 
Context2:14 He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites 1 when they came there to Shiloh.
2:15 Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, “Hand over some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t take boiled meat from you, but only raw.” 2
1 Samuel 2:22
Context2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel 3 and how they used to have sex with 4 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 6:9
Context6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 6:19
Context6:19 But the Lord 5 struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord; he struck down 50,070 6 of the men. The people grieved because the Lord had struck the people with a hard blow.
1 Samuel 7:3
Context7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. 7 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 8 from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 9:4
Context9:4 So Saul 9 crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
1 Samuel 9:16
Context9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate 10 him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”
1 Samuel 9:27
Context9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. 11 Samuel then said, 12 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 10:2
Context10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 13 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 10:18
Context10:18 He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power 14 of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
1 Samuel 12:9
Context12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 15 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 16 army, 17 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Samuel 12:17
Context12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”
1 Samuel 13:2
Context13:2 Saul selected for himself three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash and in the hill country of Bethel; 18 the remaining thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. 19 He sent all the rest of the people back home. 20
1 Samuel 14:3
Context14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying 21 an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 22
1 Samuel 16:16
Context16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 23 and you will feel better.” 24
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 25 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 26 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 27 for yourselves a man so he may come down 28 to me!
1 Samuel 17:26
Context17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? 29 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:28
Context17:28 When David’s 30 oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry 31 with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! 32 You have come down here to watch the battle!”
1 Samuel 17:39
Context17:39 David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. 33 David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.
1 Samuel 17:55
Context17:55 34 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 35 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 20:12-13
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 36 I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? 37 20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know 38 and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. 39 May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.
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.’ 40 I have told my soldiers 41 to wait at a certain place. 42
1 Samuel 21:11
Context21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,
‘Saul struck down his thousands,
But David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 43 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 44 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 45 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 46 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 47 the priests of the Lord.
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 48 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 49
1 Samuel 25:29
Context25:29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag 50 of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
1 Samuel 25:34
Context25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
1 Samuel 28:15
Context28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 51 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 52 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 53
1 Samuel 30:15-16
Context30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
30:16 So he took David 54 down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot 55 they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
1 Samuel 30:21
Context30:21 Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, 56 those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.
1 Samuel 31:4
Context31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
1 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
2 tn Heb “living.”
3 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
4 tn Heb “lie with.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
6 tc The number 50,070 is surprisingly large, although it finds almost unanimous textual support in the MT and in the ancient versions. Only a few medieval Hebrew
7 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10, where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33; 2 Kgs 23:13, where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.
8 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “anoint.”
11 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
12 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
13 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
14 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
15 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
16 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
17 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
18 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
19 tn Heb “at Gibeah of Benjamin.” The words “in the territory” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Heb “each one to his tents.”
21 tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
22 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
23 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
24 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
27 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
28 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
29 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
30 tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”
32 tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”
33 tn Heb “he had not tested.”
34 tc Most LXX
35 tn Heb “arose and went.”
36 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
37 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
38 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
39 tn Heb “in peace.”
40 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
41 tn Heb “servants.”
42 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.
43 tn Heb “by giving.”
44 tn Heb “rises up against.”
45 tn Heb “runners.”
46 tn Heb “their hand is.”
47 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
48 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
49 tn Heb “anointed.”
50 tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”
51 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
52 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
53 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
54 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
55 tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”
56 tn Heb “David.” The pronoun (“him”) has been substituted for the proper name in the translation for stylistic reasons.
