Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:4 
Context6:4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”
They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.
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, 1 where they positioned the ark of the Lord until this very day in the field of Joshua who was from Beth Shemesh.
1 Samuel 10:5
Context10:5 Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. 2 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 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 3 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 4 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 5 for yourselves a man so he may come down 6 to me!
1 Samuel 17:45-46
Context17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied! 17:46 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 17:55
Context17:55 7 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”
1 Samuel 18:6
Context18:6 When the men 8 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. 9
1 Samuel 18:25
Context18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his 10 enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 11 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 12 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 tc A few Hebrew
2 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.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
5 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.
6 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
7 tc Most LXX
8 tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.
9 tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”
10 tn Heb “the king’s.”
11 tn Heb “arose and went.”
12 tn Heb “and he put his life into his hand.”
