1 Samuel 4:15

4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; ¹  he was unable to see.

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ² Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ³  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “were set” or “were fixed,” i.e., without vision.

² tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

⁴ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”