Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:3 
Context6:3 They replied, “If you are going to send the ark of 1 the God of Israel back, don’t send it away empty. Be sure to return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why his hand is not removed from you.”
1 Samuel 12:3
Context12:3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. 2 Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, 3 and I will return it to you!”
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 4 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 5 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 6
1 tc The LXX and a Qumran
2 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
3 tn The words “tell me” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
5 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
6 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
