Discovery Box1 Samuel 5:5 
Context5:5 (For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.)
1 Samuel 8:8
Context8:8 Just as they have done 1 from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 2 they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.
1 Samuel 17:52
Context17:52 Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward, shouting a battle cry. 3 They chased the Philistines to the valley 4 and to the very gates of Ekron. The Philistine corpses lay fallen along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
1 Samuel 18:8
Context18:8 This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, 5 “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”
1 Samuel 20:7
Context20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ 6 then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. 7
1 Samuel 25:2
Context25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; 8 he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:36
Context25:36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time 9 and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing 10 until morning’s light.
1 Samuel 26:21
Context26:21 Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won’t harm you, for you treated my life with value 11 this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!” 12
1 Samuel 28:20
Context28:20 Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel’s words. He was completely drained of energy, 13 not having eaten anything 14 all that day and night.
1 Samuel 30:6
Context30:6 David was very upset, for the men 15 were thinking of stoning him; 16 each man grieved bitterly 17 over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.
1 tn Heb “according to all the deeds which they have done.”
2 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
3 tn Heb “arose and cried out.”
4 tc Most of the LXX
5 tn Heb “said.” So also in vv. 11, 17.
6 tn Heb “good.”
7 tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”
8 tn Heb “great.”
9 tn Heb “and the heart of Nabal was good upon him”; NASB, NRSV “Nabal’s heart was merry within him”; NIV “he was in high spirits”; NCV, TEV “was in a good mood”; CEV “was very drunk and feeling good.”
10 tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”
11 tn Heb “my life was valuable in your eyes.”
12 tn Heb “and I have erred very greatly.”
13 tn Heb “also there was no strength in him.”
14 tn Heb “food.”
15 tn Heb “people.”
16 tn Heb “said to stone him.”
17 tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”
