Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:16 
Context4:16 The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli 1 asked, “How did things go, my son?”
1 Samuel 8:5
Context8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead 2 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 8:8
Context8:8 Just as they have done 3 from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.
1 Samuel 15:33
Context15:33 Samuel said, “Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the Lord.
1 Samuel 17:33
Context17:33 But Saul replied to David, “You aren’t able to go against this Philistine and fight him! You’re just a boy! He has been a warrior from his youth!”
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. 4 For he has defied the armies of the living God!”
1 Samuel 17:50
Context17:50 5 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. 6
1 Samuel 18:23
Context18:23 So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately 7 to David. David replied, “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”
1 Samuel 20:2
Context20:2 Jonathan 8 said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing 9 large or small without making me aware of it. 10 Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
3 tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”
4 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?”
6 tn Verse 50 is a summary statement; v. 51 gives a more detailed account of how David killed the Philistine.
7 tn Heb “in the ears of.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew
10 tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”
