Discovery Box1 Samuel 3:3 
Context3:3 and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.
1 Samuel 3:6
Context3:6 The Lord again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli 1 said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”
1 Samuel 6:21
Context6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”
1 Samuel 10:8
Context10:8 You will go down to Gilgal before me. I am going to join you there to offer burnt offerings and to make peace offerings. You should wait for seven days, until I arrive and tell you what to do.”
1 Samuel 10:25
Context10:25 Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. 2 He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.
1 Samuel 11:11
Context11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them 3 down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.
1 Samuel 13:12
Context13:12 I thought, 4 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 5 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 14:13
Context14:13 Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines, 6 while his armor bearer came along behind him and killed them. 7
1 Samuel 15:3
Context15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 8 them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 15:12
Context15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where 9 he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 10 and went down to Gilgal.” 11
1 Samuel 17:36
Context17:36 Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. 12 For he has defied the armies of the living God!”
1 Samuel 17:49-50
Context17:49 David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.
17:50 13 David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand. 14
1 Samuel 21:13
Context21:13 He altered his behavior in their presence. 15 Since he was in their power, 16 he pretended to be insane, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard.
1 Samuel 22:1
Context22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family 17 learned about it, they went down there to him.
1 Samuel 23:25
Context23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. 18 But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.
1 Samuel 24:8
Context24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.
1 Samuel 28:14
Context28:14 He said to her, “What about his appearance?” She said, “An old man is coming up! He is wrapped in a robe!”
Then Saul realized it was Samuel, and he bowed his face toward the ground and kneeled down.
1 Samuel 28:23
Context28:23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged 19 him to eat, so he gave in. 20 He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
1 Samuel 30:24
Context30:24 Who will listen to you in this matter? The portion of the one who went down into the battle will be the same as the portion of the one who remained with the equipment! Let their portions be the same!”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the regulation of the kingship.” This probably refers to the regulations pertaining to kingship given to Moses (see Deut 17:14-20).
3 tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.
4 tn Heb “said.”
5 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
6 tn Heb “and they fell before Jonathan.”
7 tn Heb “and the one carrying his equipment was killing after him.”
8 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
9 tn Heb “and look.”
10 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”
11 tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin
12 tc The LXX includes here the following words not found in the MT: “Should I not go and smite him, and remove today reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one?”
13 tc Most LXX
14 tn Verse 50 is a summary statement; v. 51 gives a more detailed account of how David killed the Philistine.
15 tn Heb “in their eyes.”
16 tn Heb “in their hand.”
17 tn Heb “house.”
18 tn Heb “to search.”
19 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
20 tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”
