Discovery Box1 Samuel 9:4 
Context9:4 So Saul 1 crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
1 Samuel 9:7
Context9:7 So Saul said to his servant, “All right, 2 we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
1 Samuel 9:19
Context9:19 Samuel replied to Saul, “I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking. 3
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. 4 Samuel then said, 5 “You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God’s message.”
1 Samuel 10:21
Context10:21 Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of Matri was chosen by lot. At last Saul son of Kish was chosen by lot. But when they looked for him, he was nowhere to be found.
1 Samuel 11:7
Context11:7 He took a pair 6 of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. 7
1 Samuel 14:24
Context14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
1 Samuel 14:34
Context14:34 Then Saul said, “Scatter out among the army and say to them, ‘Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating the blood.” So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there. 8
1 Samuel 14:36
Context14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout 9 them until the break of day. 10 We won’t leave any of them alive!” 11 They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.” 12 But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”
1 Samuel 14:45
Context14:45 But the army said to Saul, “Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today.” So the army rescued Jonathan from death. 13
1 Samuel 15:6
Context15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away 14 with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:9
Context15:9 However, Saul and the army spared Agag, along with the best of the flock, the cattle, the fatlings, 15 and the lambs, as well as everything else that was of value. 16 They were not willing to slaughter them. But they did slaughter everything that was despised 17 and worthless.
1 Samuel 16:1
Context16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. 18 Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, 19 for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.” 20
1 Samuel 17:8
Context17:8 Goliath 21 stood and called to Israel’s troops, 22 “Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose 23 for yourselves a man so he may come down 24 to me!
1 Samuel 17:39
Context17:39 David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. 25 David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.
1 Samuel 17:55
Context17:55 26 Now as Saul watched David going out to fight the Philistine, he asked Abner, the general in command of the army, “Whose son is this young man, Abner?” Abner replied, “As surely as you live, O king, I don’t know.”
1 Samuel 18:6
Context18:6 When the men 27 arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. 28
1 Samuel 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 29 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 19:4
Context19:4 So Jonathan spoke on David’s behalf 30 to his father Saul. He said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial 31 for you.
1 Samuel 21:11
Context21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,
‘Saul struck down his thousands,
But David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 22:13
Context22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave 32 him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes 33 me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!”
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.’” 34 So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 26:12
Context26:12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.
1 Samuel 29:3
Context29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? 35 I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” 36
1 Samuel 31:7
Context31:7 When the men of Israel who were in the valley and across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “look.”
3 tn Heb “all that is in your heart.”
4 tc This statement is absent in the LXX (with the exception of Origen), an Old Latin
5 tn The words “Samuel then said” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “yoke.”
7 tn Heb “like one man.”
8 tn Heb “and all the army brought near, each his ox by his hand, and they slaughtered there.”
9 tn Heb “plunder.”
10 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
11 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
12 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
13 tn Heb “and he did not die.”
14 tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).
15 tn The Hebrew text is difficult here. We should probably read וְהַמַּשְׂמַנִּים (vÿhammasmannim, “the fat ones”) rather than the MT וְהַמִּשְׂנִים (vÿhammisnim, “the second ones”). However, if the MT is retained, the sense may be as the Jewish commentator Kimchi supposed: the second-born young, thought to be better than the firstlings. (For discussion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 123-24.)
16 tn Heb “good.”
17 tc The MT has here the very odd form נְמִבְזָה (nÿmivzah), but this is apparently due to a scribal error. The translation follows instead the Niphal participle נִבְזָה (nivzah).
18 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
20 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Goliath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said to them.”
23 tc The translation follows the ancient versions in reading “choose,” (from the root בחר, bkhr), rather than the MT. The verb in MT (ברה, brh) elsewhere means “to eat food”; the sense of “to choose,” required here by the context, is not attested for this root. The MT apparently reflects an early scribal error.
24 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form (either an imperfect or jussive) with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result here.
25 tn Heb “he had not tested.”
26 tc Most LXX
27 tn Heb “them.” The masculine plural pronoun apparently refers to the returning soldiers.
28 tn Heb “with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.”
29 tn Heb “arose and went.”
30 tn Heb “spoke good with respect to David.”
31 tn Heb “good.”
32 tn Heb “by giving.”
33 tn Heb “rises up against.”
34 tn Heb “is good in your eyes.”
35 tn Heb “these days or these years.”
36 tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”
