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 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 9:4
Context9:4 So Saul 6 crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 7 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 8 People look on the outward appearance, 9 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 10 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 11 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 12 the priests of the Lord.
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 Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
10 tn Heb “runners.”
11 tn Heb “their hand is.”
12 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
