Discovery Box1 Samuel 8:22 
Context8:22 The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say 1 and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”
1 Samuel 14:39
Context14:39 For as surely as the Lord, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!” But no one from the army said anything. 2
1 Samuel 15:17
Context15:17 Samuel said, “Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord chose 3 you as king over Israel.
1 Samuel 20:30
Context20:30 Saul became angry with Jonathan 4 and said to him, “You stupid traitor! 5 Don’t I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother’s nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?
1 Samuel 21:8
Context21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don’t have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king’s instructions.”
1 Samuel 25:8
Context25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come 6 at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants 7 and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” 8
1 Samuel 25:31
Context25:31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt 9 for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, 10 please remember your servant.”
1 Samuel 28:21
Context28:21 When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, “Your servant has done what you asked. 11 I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me. 12
1 tn Heb “listen to their voice.”
2 tn Heb “and there was no one answering from all the army.”
3 tn Heb “anointed.”
4 tc Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “son of a perverse woman of rebelliousness.” But such an overly literal and domesticated translation of the Hebrew expression fails to capture the force of Saul’s unrestrained reaction. Saul, now incensed and enraged over Jonathan’s liaison with David, is actually hurling very coarse and emotionally charged words at his son. The translation of this phrase suggested by Koehler and Baumgartner is “bastard of a wayward woman” (HALOT 796 s.v. עוה), but this is not an expression commonly used in English. A better English approximation of the sentiments expressed here by the Hebrew phrase would be “You stupid son of a bitch!” However, sensitivity to the various public formats in which the Bible is read aloud has led to a less startling English rendering which focuses on the semantic value of Saul’s utterance (i.e., the behavior of his own son Jonathan, which he viewed as both a personal and a political betrayal [= “traitor”]). But this concession should not obscure the fact that Saul is full of bitterness and frustration. That he would address his son Jonathan with such language, not to mention his apparent readiness even to kill his own son over this friendship with David (v. 33), indicates something of the extreme depth of Saul’s jealousy and hatred of David.
6 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
7 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
8 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”
9 tn Heb “and this will not be for you for staggering and for stumbling of the heart of my lord.”
10 tn Heb “and the
11 tn Heb “listened to your voice.”
12 tn Heb “listened to your words that you spoke to me.”
