Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:3 
Context4:3 When the army 1 came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by 2 the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us 3 from the hand of our enemies.
1 Samuel 5:11
Context5:11 So they assembled 4 all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us 5 and our 6 people!” The terror 7 of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. 8
1 Samuel 9:7
Context9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, 9 we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
1 Samuel 12:10
Context12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 10 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 11 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 12
1 Samuel 16:11
Context16:11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Is that all of the young men?” Jesse 13 replied, “There is still the youngest one, but he’s taking care of the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 16:16
Context16:16 Let our lord instruct his servants who are here before you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then whenever the evil spirit from God comes upon you, he can play the lyre 14 and you will feel better.” 15
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 16 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 17 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 18
1 tn Or “people.”
2 tn Heb “before.”
3 tn Heb “and it will come in our midst and it will save.” After the cohortative (see “let’s take”), the prefixed verbal forms with the prefixed conjunction indicate purpose or result. The translation understands the ark to be the subject of the third masculine singular verbs, although it is possible to understand the Lord as the subject. In the latter case, one should translate, “when he is with us, he will save us.”
4 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
5 tn Heb “me.”
6 tn Heb “my.”
7 tn Or “panic.”
8 tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”
9 tn Heb “look.”
10 tn Heb “and said.”
11 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
12 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jesse) has been specified in the translation both here and in v. 12 for clarity.
14 tn Heb “and he will play with his hand.”
15 tn Heb “and it will be better for you.”
16 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
17 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
18 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
