1 Samuel 7:5

7:5 Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf.”

1 Samuel 7:8

7:8 The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep ¹  crying out to the Lord our ²  God so that he may save us ³  from the hand of the Philistines!”

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¹ tn Heb “don’t stop.”

² tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”

³ tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.