Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:9 
Context4:9 Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”
1 Samuel 15:18
Context15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 1 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 2 have destroyed them.’
1 Samuel 17:2
Context17:2 Saul and the Israelite army 3 assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against 4 the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:10
Context17:10 Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight 5 each other!”
1 Samuel 19:8
Context19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 6 and they ran away from him.
1 tn Heb “journey.”
2 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).
3 tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”
4 tn Heb “to meet.”
5 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative verbal form indicates purpose/result here.
6 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
