Discovery Box1 Samuel 3:1 
ContextThe Call of Samuel
3:1 Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. 1 Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.
1 Samuel 7:13
Context7:13 So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1 Samuel 13:8
Context13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. 2 But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. 3
1 tn Heb “before Eli.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”
