Discovery Box1 Samuel 12:7
Context12:7 Now take your positions, so I may confront you 1 before the Lord regarding all the Lord’s just actions toward you and your ancestors. 2
1 Samuel 10:18
Context10:18 He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power 3 of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
1 Samuel 8:18
Context8:18 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.” 4
1 Samuel 12:2
Context12:2 Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.
1 Samuel 12:11
Context12:11 So the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, 5 Barak, 6 Jephthah, and Samuel, 7 and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
1 Samuel 12:22-23
Context12:22 The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. 8 The Lord was pleased to make you his own people. 12:23 As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.
1 Samuel 17:47
Context17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”
1 Samuel 7:3
Context7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. 9 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 10 from the hand of the Philistines.”
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!” 11 Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given 12 them into the hand of Israel!”
1 Samuel 22:3
Context22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay 13 with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”
1 Samuel 23:23
Context23:23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. 14 Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him 15 among all the thousands of Judah.”
[12:7] 1 tn Heb “and I will enter into judgment with you” (NRSV similar); NAB “and I shall arraign you.”
[12:7] 2 tn Heb “all the just actions which he has done with you and with your fathers.”
[10:18] 3 tn Heb “hand” (also later in this verse).
[8:18] 5 tc The LXX adds “because you have chosen for yourselves a king.”
[12:11] 7 sn Jerub-Baal (יְרֻבַּעַל) is also known as Gideon (see Judg 6:32). The Book of Judges uses both names for him.
[12:11] 8 tc The MT has “Bedan” (בְּדָן) here (cf. KJV, NASB, CEV). But a deliverer by this name is not elsewhere mentioned in the OT. The translation follows the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “Barak.”
[12:11] 9 tc In the ancient versions there is some confusion with regard to these names, both with regard to the particular names selected for mention and with regard to the order in which they are listed. For example, the LXX has “Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel.” But the Targum has “Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, and Samuel,” while the Syriac Peshitta has “Deborah, Barak, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.”
[12:22] 9 tn Heb “on account of his great name.”
[7:3] 11 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.
[7:3] 12 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
[14:12] 14 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.
