1 Samuel 8:1

Israel Seeks a King

8:1 In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 8:5

8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead ¹  us, just like all the other nations have.”

1 Samuel 12:2

12:2 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 2:22

2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel ²  and how they used to have sex with ³  the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 4:18

4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli ⁴  fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he ⁵  was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ⁶ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ⁷  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).

¹ tn Heb “to all Israel.”

² tn Heb “lie with.”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the man.”

¹ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

³ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”