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 4:4
Context4:4 So the army 4 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 5:4
Context5:4 But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon’s body was left intact. 5
1 Samuel 6:14
Context6:14 The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
1 Samuel 6:18
Context6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, 6 where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.
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 7 of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
1 Samuel 11:7
Context11:7 He took a pair 8 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 9
1 Samuel 12:3
Context12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. 10 Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, 11 and I will return it to you!”
1 Samuel 12:9
Context12:9 “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 12 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 13 army, 14 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
1 Samuel 14:3
Context14:3 Now Ahijah was carrying 15 an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 16 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 17 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 14:34
Context14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. 18
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 19
1 Samuel 16:1
Context16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 20 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 21 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 22
1 Samuel 16:16
Context16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 23 and you will feel better.” 24
1 Samuel 17:45-46
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! 17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
1 Samuel 18:17
Context18:17 25 Then Saul said to David, “Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior 26 for me and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul thought, “There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”
1 Samuel 19:5
Context19:5 He risked his life 27 when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
1 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Taking an oath, David again 28 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 29 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 30 ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”
1 Samuel 20:12
Context20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. 31 I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? 32
1 Samuel 20:21
Context20:21 When I send a boy after them, I will say, “Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; 33 get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the Lord lives, you will be safe and there will no problem.
1 Samuel 21:6
Context21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.
1 Samuel 24:4
Context24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” 34 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 25:34
Context25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives – he who has prevented me from harming you – if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
1 Samuel 26:12
Context26:12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.
1 Samuel 26:20
Context26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge 35 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 36 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 37 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 38
1 Samuel 29:6
Context29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 39 serving 40 with me in the army. 41 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 42 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 43
1 Samuel 29:8
Context29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
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 Or “people.”
5 tc Heb “only Dagon was left.” We should probably read the word גֵּו (gev, “back”) before Dagon, understanding it to have the sense of the similar word גְּוִיָּה (gÿviyyah, “body”). This variant is supported by the following evidence: The LXX has ἡ ῥάχις (Jh rJacis, “the back” or “trunk”); the Syriac Peshitta has wegusmeh (“and the body of”); the Targum has gupyeh (“the body of”); the Vulgate has truncus (“the trunk of,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT). On the strength of this evidence the present translation employs the phrase “Dagon’s body.”
6 tc A few Hebrew
7 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
8 tn Heb “yoke.”
9 tn Heb “like one man.”
10 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
11 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn Heb “sold” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “he allowed them to fall into the clutches of Sisera”; NLT “he let them be conquered by Sisera.”
13 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
14 tn Heb “captain of the host of Hazor.”
15 tn Heb “bearing.” Many English versions understand this verb to mean “wearing” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
16 tn Heb “a thing.”
17 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
18 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
19 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
20 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
21 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
22 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
23 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
24 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
25 tc Much of the
26 tn Heb “son of valor.”
27 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
28 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
29 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
30 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
31 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the
32 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
33 tn Heb “from you and here.”
34 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
35 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
36 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
37 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
38 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
39 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
40 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
41 tn Heb “camp.”
42 tn Heb “eyes.”
43 tn Heb “good.”
