Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:16 
Context2:16 If the individual said to him, “First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say, “No! 1 Hand it over right now! If you don’t, I will take it forcibly!”
1 Samuel 2:36
Context2:36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money 2 and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”
1 Samuel 3:9
Context3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 8:22
Context8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say 3 and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”
1 Samuel 9:9
Context9:9 (Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)
1 Samuel 14:10
Context14:10 But if they say, ‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the Lord has given them into our hand – it will be a sign to us.”
1 Samuel 16:2
Context16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you 4 and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
1 Samuel 17:37
Context17:37 David went on to say, “The Lord who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “Go! The Lord will be with you.” 5
1 Samuel 20:6-7
Context20:6 If your father happens to miss me, you should say, ‘David urgently requested me to let him go 6 to his city Bethlehem, 7 for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’ 20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ 8 then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. 9
1 Samuel 20:22
Context20:22 But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ 10 get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.
1 Samuel 26:10
Context26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
1 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “listen to their voice.”
4 tn Heb “in your hand.”
5 tn Or “Go, and may the
6 tn Heb “to run.”
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
8 tn Heb “good.”
9 tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”
10 tn Heb “from you and onward.”
