Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:14 
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.
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 2 and how they used to have sex with 3 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 5:8
Context5:8 So they assembled 4 all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.
1 Samuel 9:7
Context9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, 5 we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
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! 6 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 14:36
Context14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout 7 them until the break of day. 8 We won’t leave any of them alive!” 9 They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” 10 But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”
1 Samuel 16:1
Context16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 11 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 12 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 13
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 14 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 15 People look on the outward appearance, 16 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 17 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 18 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 19 for yourselves a man so he may come down 20 to me!
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.’ 21 I have told my soldiers 22 to wait at a certain place. 23
1 Samuel 24:4
Context24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” 24 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
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 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 “to all Israel.”
3 tn Heb “lie with.”
4 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
5 tn Heb “look.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “plunder.”
8 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
9 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
10 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
11 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
13 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
14 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
15 tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.
16 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
19 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.
20 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
21 tn Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”
22 tn Heb “servants.”
23 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.
24 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
