Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:15 
Context2:15 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.” 1
1 Samuel 4:3
Context4:3 When the army 2 came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by 3 the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us 4 from the hand of our enemies.
1 Samuel 6:3
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 5 the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”
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 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. 6 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 7 from the hand of the Philistines.”
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 8 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 11:7
Context11:7 He took a pair 9 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 10
1 Samuel 12:3
Context12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. 11 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, 12 and I will return it to you!”
1 Samuel 12:10
Context12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 13 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 14 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 15
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 16 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 17 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 17:46
Context17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
1 Samuel 18:21
Context18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 18
1 Samuel 18:25
Context18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his 19 enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
1 Samuel 22:6
Context22:6 But Saul found out the whereabouts of David and the men who were with him. 20 Now Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at an elevated location with his spear in hand and all his servants stationed around him.
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.’” 21 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 24:6
Context24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, 22 by extending my hand against him. After all, 23 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 24
1 Samuel 24:10-11
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 25 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 26 24:11 Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning 27 evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.
1 Samuel 30:15
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.”
1 tn Heb “living.”
2 tn Or “people.”
3 tn Heb “before.”
4 tn Heb “and it will come in our midst and it will save.” After the cohortative (see “let’s take”), the prefixed verbal forms with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose or result. The translation understands the ark to be the subject of the third masculine singular verbs, although it is possible to understand the Lord as the subject. In the latter case, one should translate, “when he is with us, he will save us.”
5 tc The LXX and a Qumran
6 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.
7 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
8 tn Heb “anoint.”
9 tn Heb “yoke.”
10 tn Heb “like one man.”
11 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
12 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
13 tn Heb “and said.”
14 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
15 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
16 tn Heb “a thing.”
17 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
18 tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
19 tn Heb “the king’s.”
20 tn Heb “and Saul heard that David and the men who were with him were known.”
21 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
22 tn Heb “anointed.”
23 tn Or “for.”
24 tn Heb “anointed.”
25 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
26 tn Heb “anointed.”
27 tn Heb “there is not in my hand.”
