1 Samuel 3

Now the boy Samuel was serving God to the face of Eli. And the word of God was rare in those days; vision {was} not spread.

And it happened in that day that Eli was lying down in his place. Now his eyes had begun {to be} dim; he was not able to see.

And the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of God, where the Box of God was there. \*

And God called to Samuel. And he said, “Behold me.”

And he ran to Eli and said, “Behold me, for you called to me.” But he said, “I did not call. Go back, lie down.” So he went and lay down. \*

And God resumed calling Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Behold me, for you called to me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son. Go back, lie down.”

(Now Samuel did not yet know God, for the word of God had not yet been revealed to him.)

And God resumed calling Samuel for a third {time}. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Behold me, for you called to me.” Then Eli understood that God was calling to the boy. \*

And Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. And it will happen that, if he calls to you, then you shall say, ‘Speak, God, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

And God came and stationed himself and called as time upon time, “Samuel, Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” \*

And God said to Samuel, “Behold, I am doing a thing in Israel that everyone hearing it, the two of his ears will tingle.

In that day I will raise up against Eli all of what I have spoken against his house, beginning and ending.

Now I have declared to him that I am judging his house forever for the iniquity that he knew. For his sons have been cursing themselves, but he has not restrained them. \*

And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘If forever the iniquity of the house of Eli will cover itself by sacrifice or by offering!’”

And Samuel lay until the morning, then he opened the doors of the house of God. But Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli.

But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Behold me.” \*

And he said, “What {was} the word that he spoke to you? Please do not hide {it} from me. Thus may God do to you, and thus may he add, if you hide from me a word from all of the word that he spoke to you.”

So Samuel declared to him all of the words, and he did not hide {anything} from him. And he said, “It {is} God. May he do the good in his eyes.” \*

And Samuel grew, and God was with him, and he did not cause {anything} from all of his words to fall to the ground.

So all of Israel, from Dan and unto Beersheba, knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of God.

And God continued to appear in Shiloh. For God revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of God. \*