Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:20 
Context6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark 1 go up from here?”
1 Samuel 13:20
Context13:20 So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles 2 sharpened.
1 Samuel 14:9
Context14:9 If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay 3 right there and not go up to them.
1 Samuel 14:37
Context14:37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
1 Samuel 15:18
Context15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign 4 saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you 5 have destroyed them.’
1 Samuel 15:29
Context15:29 The Preeminent One 6 of Israel does not go back on his word 7 or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.” 8
1 Samuel 16:12
Context16:12 So Jesse had him brought in. 9 Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The Lord said, “Go and anoint him. This is the one!”
1 Samuel 17:17
Context17:17 Jesse said to his son David, “Take your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; go quickly 10 to the camp to your brothers.
1 Samuel 20:11
Context20:11 Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.”
When the two of them had gone out into the field,
1 Samuel 20:19
Context20:19 On the third day 11 you should go down quickly 12 and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. 13 Stay near the stone Ezel.
1 Samuel 20:38
Context20:38 Jonathan called out to the servant, “Hurry! Go faster! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s servant retrieved the arrow and came back to his master.
1 Samuel 20:40
Context20:40 Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, “Go, take these things back to the city.”
1 Samuel 23:4
Context23:4 So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”
1 Samuel 23:22
Context23:22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely 14 where he is 15 and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
1 Samuel 25:5
Context25:5 he 16 sent ten servants, 17 saying to them, 18 “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name. 19
1 Samuel 25:19
Context25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
1 tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the
2 tc The translation follows the LXX (“their sickle”) here, rather than the MT “plowshares,” which is due to dittography from the word earlier in the verse.
3 tn Heb “stand.”
4 tn Heb “journey.”
5 tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).
6 tn Heb “splendor,” used here by metonymy as a title for the
7 tn Or perhaps “does not lie.”
8 sn This observation marks the preceding statement (v. 28) as an unconditional, unalterable decree. When God makes such a decree he will not alter it or change his mind. This does not mean that God never deviates from his stated intentions or changes his mind. On the contrary, several passages describe him as changing his mind. In fact, his willingness to do so is one of his fundamental divine attributes (see Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2). For a fuller discussion see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Change His Mind?” BSac 152 (1995): 387-99.
9 tn Heb “and he sent and brought him.”
10 tn Heb “run.”
11 tc Heb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
12 tn Heb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
13 tn Heb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.
14 tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.
15 tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”
16 tn Heb “David”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun has been used in the translation.
17 tn Or “young men.”
18 tn Heb “and David said to the young men.”
19 tn Heb “and inquire concerning him in my name in regard to peace.”
