Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:8 
Context2:8 He lifts the weak 1 from the dust;
he raises 2 the poor from the ash heap
to seat them with princes
and to bestow on them an honored position. 3
The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,
and he has placed the world on them.
1 Samuel 3:3
Context3:3 and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.
1 Samuel 15:18
Context15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 4 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 5 have destroyed them.’
1 Samuel 21:7
Context21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)
1 Samuel 26:18
Context26:18 He went on to say, “Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done? 6
1 tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”
2 tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.
3 tn Heb “a seat of honor.”
4 tn Heb “journey.”
5 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).
6 tn Heb “What in my hand [is] evil?”
