Discovery Box1 Samuel 7:2 
Context7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people 1 of Israel longed for 2 the Lord.
1 Samuel 13:16
Context13:16 Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. 3
1 Samuel 22:4
Context22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time 4 that David was in the stronghold.
1 Samuel 23:18
Context23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 30:9-10
Context30:9 So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. 5 30:10 David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.
1 Samuel 31:2
Context31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels 6 of Saul and his sons. They 7 struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.
1 tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
2 tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”
3 tn The juxtaposition of disjunctive clauses in v.16 indicates synchronic action.
4 tn Heb “all the days.”
5 tn Heb “stood.” So also in v. 10.
6 tn Heb “stuck close after.”
7 tn Heb “the Philistines.”
