Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:15 
Context6:15 The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.
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. 1 Samuel then said, 2 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 10:5
Context10:5 Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. 3 When you enter the town, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place. They will have harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
1 Samuel 14:36
Context14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout 4 them until the break of day. 5 We won’t leave any of them alive!” 6 They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” 7 But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”
1 Samuel 15:6
Context15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away 8 with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 9 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 10 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 11 for yourselves a man so he may come down 12 to me!
1 Samuel 17:25-26
Context17:25 The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 13 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”
17:26 David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? 14 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:46
Context17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God
1 Samuel 18:6
Context18:6 When the men 15 arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. 16
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 17 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 19:5
Context19:5 He risked his life 18 when he struck down the Philistine and the Lord gave all Israel a great victory. When you saw it, you were happy. So why would you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death for no reason?”
1 Samuel 21:9
Context21:9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there’s nothing here.” David said, “There’s nothing like it! Give it to me!”
1 Samuel 21:11
Context21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,
‘Saul struck down his thousands,
But David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 19 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 20 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 21
1 Samuel 30:16
Context30:16 So he took David 22 down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot 23 they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
1 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
2 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Or “sentries.” Some translate “outpost” (NIV) or “garrison” (NAB, NRSV, NLT) here (see 1 Sam 13:3). The noun is plural in the Hebrew text, but the LXX and other ancient witnesses read a singular noun here.
4 tn Heb “plunder.”
5 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
6 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
7 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
8 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
11 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
12 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
13 tn Heb “he is coming up.”
14 tn Heb “and turns aside humiliation from upon Israel.”
15 tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.
16 tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”
17 tn Heb “arose and went.”
18 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
19 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
20 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
21 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
22 tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”
