1 Samuel 02 Samuel's ministry

 1 Samuel 02

Samuel's ministry

18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a young man, dressed in a linen ephod.

19 And his mother made him a small tunic, and brought him year after year, when he went up with her husband to sacrifice the annual sacrifice.

20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give you the seed of this woman, by the petition that you have made to the Lord. And he went back to his place.

21 So the Lord visited Ana, and conceived, and had three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel grew up before the Lord.

22 But Eli was already very old, and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who flocked to the door of the congregation's tent in packs.

23 And he said to them, why do you do such things? because I hear your evil from all these people.

24 No, my children, for this is not a good report that I hear: you transgress the Lord's people.

25 If a man sins against a man, the judges will judge him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who will pray for him? But they did not hear their father's voice, because the Lord wanted to kill them.

26 And the young man Samuel grew, and became pleasant, both to the Lord and to men.