Discovery Box1 Samuel 9:24 
Context9:24 So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel 1 said, “What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
1 Samuel 9:27
Context9:27 While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” So he did. 2 Samuel then said, 3 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 14:12
Context14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” 4 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 5 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 14:36
Context14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout 6 them until the break of day. 7 We won’t leave any of them alive!” 8 They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” 9 But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”
1 Samuel 16:11
Context16:11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Is that all of the young men?” Jesse 10 replied, “There is still the youngest one, but he’s taking care of the flock.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 18:21
Context18:21 Saul said, “I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.” 11
1 Samuel 24:4
Context24:4 David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” 12 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 30:15
Context30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”
1 tn Heb “he” (also in v. 25); the referent (Samuel) has been specified in both places in the translation for clarity.
2 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
3 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “a thing.”
5 tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.
6 tn Heb “plunder.”
7 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
8 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
9 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jesse) has been specified in the translation both here and in v. 12 for clarity.
11 tc The final sentence of v. 21 is absent in most LXX
12 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
