Discovery Box1 Samuel 3:8 
Context3:8 Then the Lord called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me!” Eli then realized that it was the Lord who was calling the boy.
1 Samuel 13:21
Context13:21 They charged 1 two-thirds of a shekel 2 to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel 3 to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.
1 Samuel 17:13
Context17:13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the 4 three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.
1 Samuel 20:5
Context20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. 5 You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
1 tn Heb “the price was.” The meaning of the Hebrew word פְּצִירָה (pÿtsirah) is uncertain. This is the only place it occurs in the OT. Some propose the meaning “sharpening,” but “price” is a more likely meaning if the following term refers to a weight (see the following note on the word “shekel”). See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 238.
2 tn This word, which appears only here in the OT, probably refers to a stone weight. Stones marked פִּים (pim) have been found in excavations of Palestinian sites. The average weight of such stones is 0.268 ounces, which is equivalent to about two-thirds of a shekel. This probably refers to the price charged by the Philistines for the services listed. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 238; DNWSI 2:910; and G. I. Davies, Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, 259.
3 tc Heb “and for a third, a pick.” The Hebrew text suffers from haplography at this point. The translation follows the textual reconstruction offered by P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 235.
4 tn Heb “his.”
5 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
