Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:4
Context4:4 So the army 1 sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:13
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 2 the road, for he was very worried 3 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 4 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 5:7
Context5:7 When the people 5 of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, for he has attacked 6 both us and our god Dagon!”
1 Samuel 20:5
Context20:5 David said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. 7 You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
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 8 him,
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 Samuel 27:11
Context27:11 Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, “This way they can’t tell on us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” Such was his practice the entire time 9 that he lived in the country of the Philistines.
[4:13] 2 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
[4:13] 3 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
[4:13] 4 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
[5:7] 4 tn Heb “for his hand is severe upon.”
[20:5] 4 tn Heb “and I must surely sit with the king to eat.” The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.
