Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:31 
Context2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength 1 and the strength 2 of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!
1 Samuel 9:20
Context9:20 Don’t be concerned 3 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?” 4
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 22:1
Context22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family 5 learned about it, they went down there to him.
1 Samuel 22:11
Context22:11 Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.
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 6 of all the deaths in your father’s house!
1 tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.
2 tn Heb “arm.”
3 tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”
4 tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”
5 tn Heb “house.”
6 tc The translation follows the LXX, which reads “I am guilty,” rather than the MT, which has “I have turned.”
