Discovery Box| (0.44) | 1Sa 5:3 |
| When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, 1 Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 5:6 |
| The Lord attacked 1 the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of 2 both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores. 3 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 6:2 |
| the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 6:11 |
| They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 6:17 |
| These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the Lord – one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 6:20 |
| The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark 1 go up from here?” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 6:21 |
| So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 7:2 |
| 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. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 7:8 |
| The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep 1 crying out to the Lord our 2 God so that he may save us 3 from the hand of the Philistines!” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 7:13 |
| So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 7:17 |
| Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged 1 Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 8:6 |
| But this request displeased Samuel, for 1 they said, “Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 8:18 |
| In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.” 1 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 8:22 |
| 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.” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 9:17 |
| When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, 1 “Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people.” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 10:1 |
| Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul’s 1 head. Samuel 2 kissed him and said, “The Lord has chosen you 3 to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the Lord’s people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the Lord has chosen 4 you as leader over his inheritance. 5 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 11:13 |
| But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 12:5 |
| He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king 1 is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” 2 They said, “He is witness!” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 12:6 |
| Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors 1 up from the land of Egypt. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 12:9 |
| “But they forgot the Lord their God, so he gave 1 them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s 2 army, 3 and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. |
