Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:5 
Context6:5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice 1 that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land. 2
1 Samuel 6:7
Context6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.
1 Samuel 8:12
Context8:12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, 3 as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.
1 Samuel 10:8
Context10:8 You will go down to Gilgal before me. I am going to join you there to offer burnt offerings and to make peace offerings. You should wait for seven days, until I arrive and tell you what to do.”
1 Samuel 11:2
Context11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”
1 Samuel 16:23
Context16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. 4
1 Samuel 28:2
Context28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard 5 from now on.” 6
1 tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran
2 tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”
3 tc The numbers of v. 12 are confused in the Greek and Syriac versions. For “fifties” the LXX has “hundreds.” The Syriac Peshitta has “heads of thousands and heads of hundreds and heads of fifties and heads of tens,” perhaps reflecting influence from Deut 1:15.
4 tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”
5 tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”
6 tn Heb “all the days.”
