Discovery Box1 Samuel 3:9 
Context3:9 So Eli said to Samuel, “Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 9:5
Context9:5 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”
1 Samuel 9:8
Context9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel 1 of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” 2
1 Samuel 9:10
Context9:10 So Saul said to his servant, “That’s a good idea! 3 Come on. Let’s go.” So they went to the town where the man of God was.
1 Samuel 9:22
Context9:22 Then Samuel brought 4 Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.
1 Samuel 10:10
Context10:10 When Saul and his servant 5 arrived at Gibeah, a company of prophets was coming out to meet him. Then the spirit of God rushed upon Saul 6 and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 10:14
Context10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul 7 replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, 8 we went to Samuel.”
1 Samuel 17:34
Context17:34 David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,
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. 9 For he has defied the armies of the living God!”
1 Samuel 20:7
Context20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ 10 then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. 11
1 Samuel 20:41
Context20:41 When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, 12 knelt 13 with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.
1 Samuel 25:25
Context25:25 My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means ‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! 14 But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent. 15
1 Samuel 25:28
Context25:28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!
1 Samuel 25:31
Context25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt 16 for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, 17 please remember your servant.”
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 Samuel 28:2
Context28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard 18 from now on.” 19
1 Samuel 28:21-22
Context28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, “Your servant has done what you asked. 20 I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me. 21 28:22 Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”
1 Samuel 30:13
Context30:13 David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” The young man said, “I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.
1 sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).
2 tn Heb “our way.”
3 tn Heb “your word is good.”
4 tn Heb “took and brought.”
5 tc Two medieval Hebrew
tn Heb “they”; the referents (Saul and his servant) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”
9 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?”
10 tn Heb “good.”
11 tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”
12 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading “the mound,” rather than the MT’s “the south.” It is hard to see what meaning the MT reading “from beside the south” would have as it stands, since such a location lacks specificity. The NIV treats it as an elliptical expression, rendering the phrase as “from the south side of the stone (rock NCV).” This is perhaps possible, but it seems better to follow the LXX rather than the MT here.
13 tn Heb “fell.”
14 tn Heb “and foolishness is with him.”
15 tn Heb “my lord’s servants, whom you sent.”
16 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
17 tn Heb “and the
18 tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”
19 tn Heb “all the days.”
20 tn Heb “listened to your voice.”
21 tn Heb “listened to your words that you spoke to me.”
