Discovery Box1 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 1 and how they used to have sex with 2 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 9:13
Context9:13 When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for 3 this is the time when you can find him!”
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 4 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 9:24
Context9:24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel 5 said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
1 Samuel 10:5
Context10:5 Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. 6 When you enter the town, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place. They will have harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
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 13:14
Context13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out 7 for himself a man who is loyal to him 8 and the Lord has appointed 9 him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 10 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 11 People look on the outward appearance, 12 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 17:25
Context17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 13 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:45
Context17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!
1 Samuel 19:4
Context19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf 14 to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial 15 for you.
1 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Taking an oath, David again 16 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 17 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 18 ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”
1 Samuel 20:29
Context20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 19 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 20 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 21 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 20:42
Context20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”(21:1)
22 Then David 23 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 22:8
Context22:8 For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me 24 when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 25 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 26 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 27 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 28 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 29 the priests of the Lord.
1 Samuel 24:11
Context24:11 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 30 evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.
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 26:16
Context26:16 This failure on your part isn’t good! 31 As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! 32 Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
1 Samuel 29:3
Context29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? 33 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 34
1 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
2 tn Heb “lie with.”
3 tc The MT has “him” (אֹתוֹ, ’oto) here, in addition to the “him” at the end of the verse. The ancient versions attest to only one occurrence of the pronoun, although it is possible that this is due to translation technique rather than to their having a Hebrew text with the pronoun used only once. The present translation assumes textual duplication in the MT and does not attempt to represent the pronoun twice. However, for a defense of the MT here, with the suggested translation “for him just now – you will find him,” see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 72-73.
4 tn Heb “anoint.”
5 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 25); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in both places in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Or “sentries.” Some translate “outpost” (NIV) or “garrison” (NAB, NRSV, NLT) here (see 1 Sam 13:3). The noun is plural in the Hebrew text, but the LXX and other ancient witnesses read a singular noun here.
7 tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.
8 tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.
9 tn Heb “commanded.”
10 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
11 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.
12 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
13 tn Heb “he is coming up.”
14 tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”
15 tn Heb “good.”
16 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
17 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
18 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
19 tn Heb “send me.”
20 tn Heb “commanded.”
21 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
22 sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “uncovers my ear.”
25 tn Heb “by giving.”
26 tn Heb “rises up against.”
27 tn Heb “runners.”
28 tn Heb “their hand is.”
29 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
30 tn Heb “there is not in my hand.”
31 tn Heb “Not good [is] this thing which you have done.”
32 tn Heb “you are sons of death.”
33 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
34 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
