Discovery Box1 Samuel 7:8 
Context7:8 The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep 1 crying out to the Lord our 2 God so that he may save us 3 from the hand of the Philistines!”
1 Samuel 10:27
Context10:27 But some wicked men 4 said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. 5
1 tn Heb “don’t stop.”
2 tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”
3 tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.
4 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).
5 tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran
