Discovery Box1 Samuel 5:3 
Context5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, 1 Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.
1 Samuel 7:6
Context7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed 2 there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led 3 the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 9:20
Context9:20 Don’t be concerned 4 about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” 5
1 Samuel 9:26
Context9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.
1 Samuel 11:9
Context11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.
1 Samuel 12:17
Context12:17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves.”
1 Samuel 14:43
Context14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” 6
1 Samuel 17:7
Context17:7 The shaft 7 of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels. 8 His shield bearer was walking before him.
1 Samuel 22:18
Context22:18 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five 9 men who wore the linen ephod.
1 Samuel 24:6
Context24:6 He said to his men, “May the Lord keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the Lord’s chosen one, 10 by extending my hand against him. After all, 11 he is the Lord’s chosen one.” 12
1 Samuel 25:21
Context25:21 Now David had been thinking, 13 “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
1 tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”
2 tn Heb “said.”
3 tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”
4 tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”
5 tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”
6 tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).
7 tn The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
8 sn That is, about fifteen or sixteen pounds.
9 tc The number is confused in the Greek
10 tn Heb “anointed.”
11 tn Or “for.”
12 tn Heb “anointed.”
13 tn Heb “said.”
