1 Samuel 2:18-26

Samuel Before Yahweh as a Boy

18 Now ^aSamuel was ministering before Yahweh, as a ¹young boy ^bgirded with a linen ephod. 19 And his mother would make him a little ^arobe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer ^bthe yearly sacrifice. 20 Then Eli would ^abless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May Yahweh establish for you a seed from this woman in place of ¹the one she ^bdedicated to Yahweh.” And they went to their own ²home.
21 ^aYahweh indeed visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And ^bthe young boy Samuel grew before Yahweh.

Eli Hears About His Sons’ Evils

22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard ^aall that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with ^bthe women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 23 So he said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people? 24 No, my sons; for the report is not good ^awhich I hear the people of Yahweh ¹passing about. 25 If one man sins against another, ^aGod will mediate for him; but ^bif a man sins against Yahweh, who can pray for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for ^cYahweh desired to put them to death.
26 Now the young boy ^aSamuel ¹was growing in stature and in favor both with Yahweh and with men.

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