Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:9 
Context1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. 1 (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair 2 by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
1 Samuel 4:18
Context4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli 3 fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he 4 was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.
1 Samuel 4:13
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 5 the road, for he was very worried 6 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 7 the whole city cried out.
1 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.
2 tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “the man.”
5 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
7 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
