Discovery Box1 Samuel 9:3 
Context9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, 1 so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go 2 look for the donkeys.” 3
1 Samuel 9:26
Context9:26 They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, so I can send you on your way.” So Saul got up and the two of them – he and Samuel – went outside.
1 Samuel 10:10
Context10:10 When Saul and his servant 4 arrived at Gibeah, a company of prophets was coming out to meet him. Then the spirit of God rushed upon Saul 5 and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 10:14
Context10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul 6 replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, 7 we went to Samuel.”
1 Samuel 10:16
Context10:16 Saul said to his uncle, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul 8 did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.
1 Samuel 11:5
Context11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the 9 oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about 10 the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 11:15
Context11:15 So all the people went to Gilgal, where 11 they established Saul as king in the Lord’s presence. They offered up peace offerings there in the Lord’s presence. Saul and all the Israelites were very happy.
1 Samuel 13:4
Context13:4 All Israel heard this message, 12 “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive 13 to the Philistines!” So the people were summoned to join 14 Saul at Gilgal.
1 Samuel 13:22
Context13:22 So on the day of the battle no sword or spear was to be found in the hand of anyone in the army that was with Saul and Jonathan. No one but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.
1 Samuel 14:50
Context14:50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the general in command of his army was Abner son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 15
1 Samuel 14:52
Context14:52 There was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. So whenever Saul saw anyone who was a warrior or a brave individual, he would conscript him.
1 Samuel 15:12
Context15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where 16 he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left 17 and went down to Gilgal.” 18
1 Samuel 16:23
Context16:23 So whenever the spirit from God would come upon Saul, David would take his lyre and play it. This would bring relief to Saul and make him feel better. Then the evil spirit would leave him alone. 19
1 Samuel 18:10
Context18:10 The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul and he prophesied within his house. Now David was playing the lyre 20 that day. There was a spear in Saul’s hand,
1 Samuel 19:10
Context19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. 21 David escaped quickly 22 that night.
1 Samuel 19:17
Context19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’” 23
1 Samuel 19:20
Context19:20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw a company of prophets prophesying with Samuel standing there as their leader, the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
1 Samuel 21:7
Context21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)
1 Samuel 23:7
Context23:7 When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered 24 him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.” 25
1 Samuel 23:17
Context23:17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this.”
1 Samuel 23:25
Context23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. 26 But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.
1 Samuel 24:8
Context24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.
1 Samuel 26:3
Context26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find 27 him,
1 Samuel 26:25
Context26:25 Saul replied to David, “May you be rewarded, 28 my son David! You will without question be successful!” 29 So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 tn Heb “became lost.”
2 tn Heb “and arise, go.”
3 tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.”
4 tc Two medieval Hebrew
tn Heb “they”; the referents (Saul and his servant) have been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
10 tn Heb “the matters of.”
11 tn Heb “and there in Gilgal.”
12 tn The words “this message” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
13 tn Heb “stinks.” The figurative language indicates that Israel had become repulsive to the Philistines.
14 tn Heb “were summoned after.”
15 sn The word “uncle” can modify either Abner or Ner. See the note on the word “son” in v. 51 for further discussion.
16 tn Heb “and look.”
17 tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”
18 tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin
19 tn Heb “would turn aside from upon him.”
20 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
21 tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”
22 tn Heb “fled and escaped.”
23 tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26.
24 tn The MT reading (“God has alienated him into my hand”) in v. 7 is a difficult and uncommon idiom. The use of this verb in Jer 19:4 is somewhat parallel, but not entirely so. Many scholars have therefore suspected a textual problem here, emending the word נִכַּר (nikkar, “alienated”) to סִכַּר (sikkar, “he has shut up [i.e., delivered]”). This is the idea reflected in the translations of the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate, although it is not entirely clear whether they are reading something different from the MT or are simply paraphrasing what for them too may have been a difficult text. The LXX has “God has sold him into my hands,” apparently reading מַכַר (makar, “sold”) for MT’s נִכַּר. The present translation is a rather free interpretation.
25 tn Heb “with two gates and a bar.” Since in English “bar” could be understood as a saloon, it has been translated as an attributive: “two barred gates.”
26 tn Heb “to search.”
27 tn Heb “after.”
28 tn Heb “blessed.”
29 tn Heb “you will certainly do and also you will certainly be able.” The infinitive absolutes placed before the finite verbal forms lend emphasis to the statement.
