Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:3 
Context1:3 Year after year 1 this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.
1 Samuel 12:10
Context12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 2 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 3 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 4
1 tn Heb “from days to days.”
2 tn Heb “and said.”
3 tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.
sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.
4 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
