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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then the LORD called to Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.” |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Go and lie down,” he said to Samuel, “and if He calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’ ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.” |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’ ” |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.” |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.” |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word. |
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