Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:18 
Context4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli 1 fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he 2 was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.
1 Samuel 17:12
Context17:12 3 Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem 4 in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. 5
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Eli) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the man.”
3 tc Some
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
5 tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”
