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 9:19
Context9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. 4
1 Samuel 10:2
Context10:2 When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 5 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 6
1 Samuel 18:21
Context18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 7
1 Samuel 21:5
Context21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ 8 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
1 Samuel 22:8
Context22:8 For all of you have conspired against me! No one informs me 9 when my own son makes an agreement with this son of Jesse! Not one of you feels sorry for me or informs me that my own son has commissioned my own servant to hide in ambush against me, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 10 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 11 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
1 Samuel 22:15
Context22:15 Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse 12 his servant or any of my father’s house. For your servant is not aware of all this – not in whole or in part!” 13
1 Samuel 24:10
Context24:10 Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you – this very day – into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity 14 on you and said, ‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s chosen one.’ 15
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 “all that is in your heart.”
5 sn In the Hebrew text the pronoun you is plural, suggesting that Saul’s father was concerned about his son and the servant who accompanied him.
6 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
7 tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
8 tn Heb “servants’.”
9 tn Heb “uncovers my ear.”
10 tn Heb “by giving.”
11 tn Heb “rises up against.”
12 tn Heb “set a matter against.”
13 tn Heb “small or great.”
14 tn Heb “it had pity,” apparently with the understood subject being “my eye,” in accordance with a common expression.
15 tn Heb “anointed.”
