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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Meanwhile the boy Samuel was serving the LORD before Eli. A word from the LORD was rare in those days, and visions were infrequent. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2At that time Eli, whose vision was growing dim, was lying down in his bedroom. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The lamp of God had not yet been extinguished, and Samuel was lying down in the tent of the LORD where the Ark of God was. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The LORD called out to Samuel, who answered, "Here I am." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am! You called me." "I didn't call you," Eli said. "Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then the LORD again called out, "Samuel!" So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am! You called me." He said, "I didn't call you, my son. Go back and lie down." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD and had not yet had the word of the LORD revealed to him. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the LORD called out to Samuel again a third time, and he got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am! You called me." Then Eli understood that the LORD was calling the boy, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9so Eli told Samuel, "Go lie down, and then if he calls you, answer, 'Speak, LORD, because your servant is listening.'" Then Samuel went and lay down. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Later, the LORD came and stood there, calling out, "Samuel! Samuel!" as he had before. Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant is listening." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Look," the LORD told Samuel. "I'm about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears it tingle. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I'll fulfill every promise that I've spoken concerning Eli's family, from beginning to end. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I've told him that I'm about to judge his family forever because of the iniquity that he knew about. His sons committed blasphemy and he did not rebuke them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore I've sworn concerning Eli's family that the iniquity of his family is not to be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the LORD, but he was afraid to report the vision to Eli. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Eli called Samuel: "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Eli said, "What did the LORD say to you? Please don't conceal anything from me. May God do this to you and even more if you conceal from me one word of all that he spoke to you." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Samuel told him everything—he did not conceal anything from him. Eli said, "He is the LORD. May he do what seems good to him." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As Samuel grew, the LORD was with him and did not let any of Samuel's predictions fail. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20All Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as the LORD's prophet. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because he revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by means of messages from the LORD. |
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