Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:25 
Context2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons 1 would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided 2 to kill them.
1 Samuel 2:30
Context2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say 3 that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve 4 me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! 5 For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!
1 Samuel 4:4
Context4:4 So the army 6 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:13
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 7 the road, for he was very worried 8 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 9 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 4:19
Context4:19 His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.
1 Samuel 6:3
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 10 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 9:6-7
Context9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 11 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 12 9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, 13 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 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. 14 Samuel then said, 15 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 10:3
Context10:3 “As you continue on from there, you will come to the tall tree of Tabor. At that point three men who are going up to God at Bethel 16 will meet you. One of them will be carrying three young goats, one of them will be carrying three round loaves of bread, and one of them will be carrying a container of wine.
1 Samuel 10:5
Context10:5 Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. 17 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 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 18 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 19 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 20 army, 21 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Samuel 14:36
Context14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout 22 them until the break of day. 23 We won’t leave any of them alive!” 24 They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” 25 But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”
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. 26
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 27 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 28 People look on the outward appearance, 29 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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 30 and you will feel better.” 31
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? 32 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:45-46
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! 17:46 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 20:12
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 33 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? 34
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 35 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 36 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:15
Context22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 37 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 38
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 39 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 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 “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “desired.”
3 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
4 tn Heb “walk about before.”
5 tn Heb “may it be far removed from me.”
6 tn Or “people.”
7 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
8 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
9 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
10 tc The LXX and a Qumran
11 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
12 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
13 tn Heb “look.”
14 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
15 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
16 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
17 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.
18 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
19 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.”
20 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
21 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
22 tn Heb “plunder.”
23 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
24 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
25 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
26 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
27 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
28 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.
29 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
30 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
31 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
32 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
33 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
34 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
35 tn Heb “by giving.”
36 tn Heb “rises up against.”
37 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
38 tn Heb “small or great.”
39 tn Cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “bundle”; NLT “treasure pouch.”
