Discovery Box1 Samuel 5:8 
Context5:8 So they assembled 1 all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.
1 Samuel 5:11
Context5:11 So they assembled 2 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 3 and our 4 people!” The terror 5 of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. 6
1 Samuel 6:12
Context6:12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.
1 Samuel 6:18
Context6:18 The gold mice corresponded in number to all the Philistine cities of the five leaders, from the fortified cities to hamlet villages, to greater Abel, 7 where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 8 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 9 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 10
1 Samuel 29:6
Context29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 11 serving 12 with me in the army. 13 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 14 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 15
1 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
2 tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”
3 tn Heb “me.”
4 tn Heb “my.”
5 tn Or “panic.”
6 tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”
7 tc A few Hebrew
8 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
9 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
10 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
11 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
12 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
13 tn Heb “camp.”
14 tn Heb “eyes.”
15 tn Heb “good.”
