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 6:4
Context6:4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”
They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.
1 Samuel 6:9
Context6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 9:16
Context9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin. You must consecrate 4 him as a leader over my people Israel. He will save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked with favor on my people. Their cry has reached me!”
1 Samuel 9:24
Context9:24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel 5 said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
1 Samuel 10:2
Context10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 6 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
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!” 7 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 8 them into the hand of Israel!”
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. 9
1 Samuel 17:46
Context17:46 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 19:4
Context19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf 10 to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial 11 for you.
1 Samuel 20:3
Context20:3 Taking an oath, David again 12 said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact 13 that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 14 ‘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 20:29
Context20:29 He said, ‘Permit me to go, 15 for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged 16 me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go 17 to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”
1 Samuel 22:8
Context22:8 For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me 18 when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 25:26
Context25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
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 26:20
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 19 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 28:15
Context28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied, “I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me – not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”
1 Samuel 29:3
Context29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? 20 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 21
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 “anoint.”
5 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 25); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in both places in the translation for clarity.
6 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
7 tn Heb “a thing.”
8 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.
9 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
10 tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”
11 tn Heb “good.”
12 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”
13 tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
14 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.
15 tn Heb “send me.”
16 tn Heb “commanded.”
17 tn Heb “be released [from duty].”
18 tn Heb “uncovers my ear.”
19 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
20 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
21 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
