Discovery Box1 Samuel 3:2 
Context3:2 Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,
1 Samuel 3:15
Context3:15 So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.
1 Samuel 7:11
Context7:11 Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.
1 Samuel 13:20
Context13:20 So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles 1 sharpened.
1 Samuel 14:14
Context14:14 In this initial skirmish Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area that measured half an acre.
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 17:27
Context17:27 The soldiers 2 told him what had been promised, saying, 3 “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”
1 Samuel 17:57
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.
1 Samuel 20:19
Context20:19 On the third day 4 you should go down quickly 5 and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. 6 Stay near the stone Ezel.
1 Samuel 20:25
Context20:25 The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him 7 and Abner at his side. 8 But David’s place was vacant.
1 Samuel 20:33
Context20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan 9 in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced 10 that his father had decided to kill David.
1 Samuel 22:19
Context22:19 As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep – all with the sword.
1 Samuel 23:4
Context23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”
1 Samuel 23:20
Context23:20 Now at your own discretion, 11 O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”
1 Samuel 24:7
Context24:7 David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down 12 the road.
1 Samuel 25:1
Context25:1 Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran. 13
1 Samuel 26:2
Context26:2 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 29:5
Context29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, 14
‘Saul has struck down his thousands,
but David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 30:17
Context30:17 But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels. 15
1 Samuel 31:2
Context31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels 16 of Saul and his sons. They 17 struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.
1 tc The translation follows the LXX (“their sickle”) here, rather than the MT “plowshares,” which is due to dittography from the word earlier in the verse.
2 tn Heb “people.”
3 tn Heb “according to this word, saying.”
4 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
5 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
6 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.
7 tc Heb “and Jonathan arose.” Instead of MT’s וַיָּקָם (vayyaqam, “and he arose”; from the hollow verbal root קוּם, qum), the translation assumes a reading וַיִּקַדֵּם (vayyiqaddem, “and he was in front of”; from the verbal root קדם, qdm). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 338.
8 tn Heb “and Abner sat at the side of Saul.”
9 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “knew.”
11 tn Heb “to all the desire of your soul.”
12 tn Heb “went on.”
13 tc The LXX reads “Maon” here instead of “Paran,” perhaps because the following account of Nabal is said to be in Maon (v. 2). This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT). The MT, however, reads “Paran,” a location which would parallel this portion of David’s life with that of the nation Israel which also spent time in Paran (Num 10:12). Also, the desert of Paran was on the southern border of Judah’s territory and would be the most isolated location for hiding from Saul.
14 tn Heb “in dances.”
15 tn Heb “who rode on camels and fled.”
16 tn Heb “stuck close after.”
17 tn Heb “the Philistines.”
