⁹ On one occasion, Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh.^[a] The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.^(A)

¹⁸ When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate,^(A) and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.