1 Samuel 3:16 but Eli called him and said, "Samuel, my son." Samuel answered, "Here I am."

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New International Version
but Eli called him and said, "Samuel, my son." Samuel answered, "Here I am."

English Standard Version
But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”

New American Standard Bible
Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." And he said, "Here I am."

King James Bible
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but Eli called him and said, "Samuel, my son." "Here I am," answered Samuel.

International Standard Version
Then Eli called Samuel: "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am."

American Standard Version
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he answered: Here am I.

Darby Bible Translation
And Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.

Young's Literal Translation
And Eli calleth Samuel, and saith, 'Samuel, my son;' and he saith, 'Here am I.'

Cross References

1 Samuel 3:15
And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

1 Samuel 3:17
And he said, What is the thing that the LORD has said to you? I pray you hide it not from me: God do so to you, and more also, if you hide any thing from me of all the things that he said to you.

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:11-18 What a great deal of guilt and corruption is there in us, concerning which we may say, It is the iniquity which our own heart knoweth; we are conscious to ourselves of it! Those who do not restrain the sins of others, when it is in their power to do it, make themselves partakers of the guilt, and will be charged as joining in it. In his remarkable answer to this awful sentence, Eli acknowledged that the Lord had a right to do as he saw good, being assured that he would do nothing wrong. The meekness, patience, and humility contained in those words, show that he was truly repentant; he accepted the punishment of his sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5-18. he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me—It is evident that his sleeping chamber was close to that of the aged high priest and that he was accustomed to be called during the night. The three successive calls addressed to the boy convinced Eli of the divine character of the speaker, and he therefore exhorted the child to give a reverential attention to the message. The burden of [the Lord's message] was an extraordinary premonition of the judgments that impended over Eli's house; and the aged priest, having drawn the painful secret from the child, exclaimed, "It is the Lord; let him do what seemeth him good." Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive. But, in order to form a right estimate of Eli's language and conduct on this occasion, we must consider the overwhelming accumulation of judgments denounced against his person, his sons, his descendants—his altar, and nation. With such a threatening prospect before him, his piety and meekness were wonderful. In his personal character he seems to have been a good man, but his sons' conduct was flagrantly bad; and though his misfortunes claim our sympathy, it is impossible to approve or defend the weak and unfaithful course which, in the retributive justice of God, brought these adversities upon him.