Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:13 
Context4:13 When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 1 the road, for he was very worried 2 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 3 the whole city cried out.
1 Samuel 12:10
Context12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, 4 ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. 5 Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ 6
1 tc Read with many medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “his heart was trembling.”
3 tn Heb “and the man came to report in the city.”
4 tn Heb “and said.”
5 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.
6 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
