Discovery Box1 Samuel 7:16 
Context7:16 Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, 1 Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.
1 Samuel 16:4
Context16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him. 2 When he arrived in Bethlehem, 3 the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They 4 said, “Do you come in peace?”
1 Samuel 17:12
Context17:12 5 Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem 6 in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. 7
1 Samuel 17:58
Context17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” 8
1 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
2 tn Heb “said.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
4 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew
5 tc Some
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
7 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
