⁶ When they had assembled at Mizpah,^(A) they drew water and poured^(B) it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Now Samuel was serving as leader^[a](C) of Israel at Mizpah.

⁸ They 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.”