Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:27 
Context2:27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not plainly 1 reveal myself to your ancestor’s 2 house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?
1 Samuel 2:36
Context2:36 Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money 3 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 4:17
Context4:17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled from 4 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 8:11
Context8:11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.
1 Samuel 9:20
Context9:20 Don’t be concerned 5 about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” 6
1 Samuel 9:26
Context9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.
1 Samuel 12:14-15
Context12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him 7 and not rebelling against what he says, 8 and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. 9 12:15 But if you don’t obey 10 the Lord and rebel against what the Lord says, the hand of the Lord will be against both you and your king. 11
1 Samuel 12:20
Context12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. 12 However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Samuel 14:28
Context14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath 13 saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”
1 Samuel 15:17
Context15:17 Samuel said, “Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord chose 14 you as king over Israel.
1 Samuel 15:21
Context15:21 But the army took from the plunder some of the sheep and cattle – the best of what was to be slaughtered – to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
1 Samuel 15:28
Context15:28 Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!
1 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 Saul 15 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 17:9
Context17:9 If he is able to fight with me and strike me down, we will become your servants. But if I prevail against him and strike him down, you will become our servants and will serve us.”
1 Samuel 17:34
Context17:34 David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,
1 Samuel 17:36
Context17:36 Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. 16 For he has defied the armies of the living God!”
1 Samuel 20:1
Context20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, 17 “What have I done? What is my offense? 18 How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!”
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 19 to his city Bethlehem, 20 for there is an annual sacrifice there for his entire family.’ 20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ 21 then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. 22
1 Samuel 20:15
Context20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth
1 Samuel 20:31
Context20:31 For as long as 23 this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men 24 and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!” 25
1 Samuel 21:4
Context21:4 The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers 26 have abstained from sexual relations with women.” 27
1 Samuel 21:8
Context21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don’t have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king’s instructions.”
1 Samuel 22:22
Context22:22 Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty 28 of all the deaths in your father’s house!
1 Samuel 23:17
Context23:17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.”
1 Samuel 25:7
Context25:7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:25
Context25:25 My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means ‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! 29 But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent. 30
1 Samuel 25:35
Context25:35 Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, “Go back 31 to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you 32 and responded favorably.” 33
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 Samuel 28:1-2
Context28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops 34 for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” 35 28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard 36 from now on.” 37
1 Samuel 28:8
Context28:8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, “Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.” 38
1 Samuel 28:19
Context28:19 The Lord will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! 39 Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. 40 The Lord will also hand the army 41 of Israel over to the Philistines!”
1 Samuel 28:21
Context28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, “Your servant has done what you asked. 42 I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me. 43
1 Samuel 29:10
Context29:10 So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you. 44 When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.” 45
1 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
2 tn Heb “to your father’s” (also in vv. 28, 30).
3 tn Heb “a piece of silver” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
4 tn Heb “before.”
5 tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”
6 tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”
7 tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”
8 tn Heb “the mouth of the
9 tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
10 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
11 tc The LXX reads “your king” rather than the MT’s “your fathers.” The latter makes little sense here. Some follow MT, but translate “as it was against your fathers.” See P. K. McCarter, 1 Samuel (AB), 212.
12 tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”
13 tn Heb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.
14 tn Heb “anointed.”
15 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tc The LXX includes here the following words not found in the MT: “Should I not go and smite him, and remove today reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one?”
17 tn Heb “and he came and said before Jonathan.”
18 tn Heb “What is my guilt?”
19 tn Heb “to run.”
20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
21 tn Heb “good.”
22 tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”
23 tn Heb “all the days that.”
24 tn The words “some men” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
25 tn Heb “a son of death.”
26 tn Heb “servants.”
27 tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”
28 tc The translation follows the LXX, which reads “I am guilty,” rather than the MT, which has “I have turned.”
29 tn Heb “and foolishness is with him.”
30 tn Heb “my lord’s servants, whom you sent.”
31 tn Heb “up.”
32 tn Heb “your voice.”
33 tn Heb “I have lifted up your face.”
34 tn Heb “their camps.”
35 tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran
36 tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”
37 tn Heb “all the days.”
38 tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.”
39 tn Heb “And the
40 tc With the exception of the Lucianic recension, the LXX has here “and tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”
41 tn Heb “camp.”
42 tn Heb “listened to your voice.”
43 tn Heb “listened to your words that you spoke to me.”
44 tc The LXX and a couple of Old Latin
45 tn Heb “when you get up early in the morning and you have light, go.”
