Discovery Box1 Samuel 6:9 
Context6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”
1 Samuel 6:12
Context6:12 Then the cows went directly on the road to Beth Shemesh. They went along, mooing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left. The leaders of the Philistines were walking along behind them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.
1 Samuel 16:7
Context16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 1 his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 2 People look on the outward appearance, 3 but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 20:13
Context20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know 4 and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. 5 May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.
1 Samuel 26:20
Context26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge 6 in the hill country.”
1 Samuel 27:11
Context27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time 7 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 29:4
Context29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 8 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 9 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 10
1 tn Heb “don’t look toward.”
2 tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.
3 tn Heb “to the eyes.”
4 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
5 tn Heb “in peace.”
6 tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.
7 tn Heb “all the days.”
8 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
9 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
10 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.
