Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:9 
Context2:9 He watches over 1 his holy ones, 2
but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,
for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.
1 Samuel 12:18
Context12:18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.
1 Samuel 14:11
Context14:11 When they 3 made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”
1 Samuel 18:13
Context18:13 Saul removed David 4 from his presence and made him a commanding officer. 5 David led the army out to battle and back. 6
1 Samuel 19:16
Context19:16 When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.
1 Samuel 23:18
Context23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.
1 tn Heb “guards the feet of.” The expression means that God watches over and protects the godly in all of their activities and movements. The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.
2 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “the two of them.”
4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “an officer of a thousand.”
6 tn Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16.
