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 4:13
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 3 the road, for he was very worried 4 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 5 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 4:17
Context4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from 6 the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”
1 Samuel 4:21
Context4:21 She named the boy Ichabod, 7 saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 8:8
Context8:8 Just as they have done 8 from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.
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 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 9 of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
1 Samuel 12:12
Context12:12 “When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the Lord your God is your king!
1 Samuel 12:19
Context12:19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” 10
1 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 Saul 11 again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”
1 Samuel 16:23
Context16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. 12
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? 13 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 18:10
Context18:10 The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre 14 that day. There was a spear in Saul’s hand,
1 Samuel 19:20
Context19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 22:3
Context22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay 15 with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”
1 Samuel 23:7
Context23:7 When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered 16 him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.” 17
1 Samuel 26:8
Context26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear 18 right through him into the ground with one swift jab! 19 A second jab won’t be necessary!”
1 Samuel 29:9
Context29:9 Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable 20 as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’
1 Samuel 30:6
Context30:6 David was very upset, for the men 21 were thinking of stoning him; 22 each man grieved bitterly 23 over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.
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 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
5 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
6 tn Heb “before.”
7 sn The name Ichabod (אִי־כָבוֹד) may mean, “Where is the glory?”
8 tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”
9 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
10 tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”
13 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
14 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
15 tn Heb “go forth.”
16 tn The MT reading (“God has alienated him into my hand”) in v. 7 is a difficult and uncommon idiom. The use of this verb in Jer 19:4 is somewhat parallel, but not entirely so. Many scholars have therefore suspected a textual problem here, emending the word נִכַּר (nikkar, “alienated”) to סִכַּר (sikkar, “he has shut up [i.e., delivered]”). This is the idea reflected in the translations of the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate, although it is not entirely clear whether they are reading something different from the MT or are simply paraphrasing what for them too may have been a difficult text. The LXX has “God has sold him into my hands,” apparently reading מַכַר (makar, “sold”) for MT’s נִכַּר. The present translation is a rather free interpretation.
17 tn Heb “with two gates and a bar.” Since in English “bar” could be understood as a saloon, it has been translated as an attributive: “two barred gates.”
18 tn Here “the spear” almost certainly refers to Saul’s own spear, which according to the previous verse was stuck into the ground beside him as he slept. This is reflected in a number of English versions: TEV, CEV “his own spear”; NLT “that spear.” Cf. NIV, NCV “my spear,” in which case Abishai refers to his own spear rather than Saul’s, but this is unlikely since (1) Abishai would probably not have carried a spear along since such a weapon would be unwieldy when sneaking into the enemy camp; and (2) this would not explain the mention of Saul’s own spear stuck in the ground beside him in the previous verse.
19 tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”
20 tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”
21 tn Heb “people.”
22 tn Heb “said to stone him.”
23 tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”
