Discovery Box1 Samuel 5:11 
Context5:11 So they assembled 1 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 2 and our 3 people!” The terror 4 of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. 5
1 Samuel 9:6
Context9:6 But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 6 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 7
1 Samuel 9:27
Context9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. 8 Samuel then said, 9 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
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 14:6
Context14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene 13 for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 14 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 15 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 20:42
Context20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”(21:1)
16 Then David 17 got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
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’ 18 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
1 Samuel 27:11
Context27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time 19 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 20 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 21 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 22
1 Samuel 30:15
Context30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
1 Samuel 30:22
Context30:22 But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, 23 we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”
1 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
2 tn Heb “me.”
3 tn Heb “my.”
4 tn Or “panic.”
5 tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”
6 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
7 tn Heb “our way on which we have gone.”
8 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
9 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
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 “act.”
14 tn Heb “a thing.”
15 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
16 sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “servants’.”
19 tn Heb “all the days.”
20 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
21 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
22 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
23 tc Heb “with me.” The singular is used rather than the plural because the group is being treated as a singular entity, in keeping with Hebrew idiom. It is not necessary to read “with us,” rather than the MT “with me,” although the plural can be found here in a few medieval Hebrew
