1 Samuel 7:8

New English Translation

⁸The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep^[a] crying out to the Lord our^[b] God so that he may save us^[c] from the hand of the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 7:8 tn Heb “don’t stop.”
1 Samuel 7:8 tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”
1 Samuel 7:8 tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

1 Samuel 7:8

New International Version

⁸They said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying^(A) out to the Lord our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.”

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