1:12 As she continued praying to 1 the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.
3:2 Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,
1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. 3 (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair 4 by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel 5 and how they used to have sex with 6 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 tc Heb “before.” Many medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “to.”
2 tn Heb “were set” or “were fixed,” i.e., without vision.
3 tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.
4 tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
4 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
5 tn Heb “lie with.”