Discovery Box1 Samuel 23:26 
Context23:26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.
1 Samuel 26:5
Context26:5 So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
1 Samuel 9:17-18
Context9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, 1 “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.” 9:18 As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
1 Samuel 10:12
Context10:12 A man who was from there replied, “And who is their father?” Therefore this became a proverb: “Is even Saul among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 10:27
Context10:27 But some wicked men 2 said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. 3
1 Samuel 11:4
Context11:4 When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) 4 and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. 5
1 Samuel 11:8
Context11:8 When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 6 strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000. 7
1 Samuel 11:12
Context11:12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who were the ones asking, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Hand over those men so we may execute them!”
1 Samuel 13:3
Context13:3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost 8 that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted 9 all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”
1 Samuel 13:8
Context13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. 10 But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. 11
1 Samuel 13:10
Context13:10 Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. 12
1 Samuel 13:16
Context13:16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. 13
1 Samuel 14:2
Context14:2 Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 14:20
Context14:20 Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found 14 the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords. 15
1 Samuel 14:35
Context14:35 Then Saul built an altar for the Lord; it was the first time he had built an altar for the Lord.
1 Samuel 14:37
Context14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 14:49
Context14:49 The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua. 16 He had two daughters; the older one was named Merab and the younger Michal.
1 Samuel 15:1
Context15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. 17
1 Samuel 15:4
Context15:4 So Saul assembled 18 the army 19 and mustered them at Telaim. There were 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.
1 Samuel 15:13
Context15:13 When Samuel came to him, 20 Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”
1 Samuel 16:20
Context16:20 So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat 21 and sent them to Saul with 22 his son David.
1 Samuel 17:2
Context17:2 Saul and the Israelite army 23 assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against 24 the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:38
Context17:38 Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also put body armor on him.
1 Samuel 17:57--18:1
Context17:57 So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. He still had the head of the Philistine in his hand. 17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” 25
18:1 When David 26 had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. 27 Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. 28
1 Samuel 18:11
Context18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.
1 Samuel 18:13
Context18:13 Saul removed David 29 from his presence and made him a commanding officer. 30 David led the army out to battle and back. 31
1 Samuel 18:19
Context18:19 When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.
1 Samuel 19:2
Context19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying 32 to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find 33 a hiding place and stay in seclusion. 34
1 Samuel 19:6-7
Context19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice 35 and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.” 19:7 Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly. 36
1 Samuel 19:9
Context19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon 37 Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. 38
1 Samuel 19:15
Context19:15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”
1 Samuel 19:23
Context19:23 So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. The Spirit of God came upon him as well, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel 20:26
Context20:26 However, Saul said nothing about it 39 that day, for he thought, 40 “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”
1 Samuel 20:33
Context20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan 41 in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced 42 that his father had decided to kill David.
1 Samuel 22:9
Context22:9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, “I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
1 Samuel 23:10
Context23:10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning 43 to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.
1 Samuel 23:12
Context23:12 David asked, “Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul’s hand?” The Lord said, “They will deliver you over.”
1 Samuel 23:15
Context23:15 David realized 44 that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.
1 Samuel 24:2
Context24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find 45 David and his men in the region of 46 the rocks of the mountain goats. 47
1 Samuel 26:1-2
Context26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near 48 Jeshimon?” 26:2 So Saul arose and
went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.
1 Samuel 26:17
Context26:17 When Saul recognized David’s voice, he said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” David replied, “Yes, it’s my voice, my lord the king.”
1 Samuel 28:6
Context28:6 So Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him – not by dreams nor by Urim 49 nor by the prophets.
1 Samuel 28:10
Context28:10 But Saul swore an oath to her by the Lord, “As surely as the Lord lives, you will not incur guilt in this matter!”
1 Samuel 29:5
Context29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, 50
‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
but David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 31:8
Context31:8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his three sons lying dead 51 on Mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31:10
Context31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths 52 and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.
1 tn Heb “responded.”
2 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).
3 tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran
4 tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”
5 tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”
6 tc The LXX and two Old Latin
7 tc The LXX, two Old Latin
8 tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”
9 tn Heb “blew the ram’s horn in.”
10 tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.
11 tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”
12 tn Heb “to bless him.”
13 tn The juxtaposition of disjunctive clauses in v.16 indicates synchronic action.
14 tn Heb “and look, there was”
15 tn Heb “the sword of a man against his companion, a very great panic.”
16 sn The list differs from others. In 1 Sam 31:2 (= 1 Chr 10:2), Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua are listed as Saul’s sons, while 1 Chr 8:33 and 9:39 list Jonathan, Malki-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
17 tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the
18 tn Heb “caused the people to hear.”
19 tn Heb “people.”
20 tn Heb “to Saul.”
21 tn Heb “a kid of the goats.”
22 tn Heb “by the hand of.”
23 tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”
24 tn Heb “to meet.”
25 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
26 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”
28 tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”
sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.
29 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
30 tn Heb “an officer of a thousand.”
31 tn Heb “and he went out and came in before the people.” See v. 16.
32 tn Heb “seeking.”
33 tn Heb “stay in.”
34 tn Heb “and hide yourself.”
35 tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”
36 tn Heb “and he was before him as before.”
37 tn Heb “[was] to.”
38 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
39 tn The words “about it” are not present in the Hebrew text, although they are implied.
40 tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself.
41 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
42 tn Heb “knew.”
43 tn Heb “seeking.”
44 tn Heb “saw.”
45 tn Heb “to search [for].”
46 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
47 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).
48 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
49 sn See the note at 1 Sam 14:41.
50 tn Heb “in dances.”
51 tn Heb “fallen.”
52 sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
