Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:31 
Context2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength 1 and the strength 2 of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!
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 8:5
Context8:5 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 5 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 12:2
Context12:2 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 17:12
Context17:12 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 Samuel 28:14
Context28:14 He said to her, “What about his appearance?” She said, “An old man is coming up! He is wrapped in a robe!”
Then Saul realized it was Samuel, and he bowed his face toward the ground and kneeled down.
1 tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.
2 tn Heb “arm.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “the man.”
5 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
6 tc Some
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
8 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
