Thematic Bible
1 Samuel 3:1 (show verse)
Now the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh {in the presence} of Eli. The word of Yahweh was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.
1 Samuel 3:2 (show verse)
{And then} one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun [to grow] weak so that he was not able to see)
1 Samuel 3:3 (show verse)
and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, Samuel was lying in the temple of Yahweh where the ark of God [was].
1 Samuel 3:4 (show verse)
Then Yahweh called out to Samuel and he said, "Here I am!"
1 Samuel 3:5 (show verse)
And he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." But he said, "I did not call [you]. Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down.
1 Samuel 3:6 (show verse)
And Yahweh called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." And he said, "I did not call you, my son. Go back [and] lie down."
1 Samuel 3:7 (show verse)
Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him.
1 Samuel 3:8 (show verse)
Again Yahweh called Samuel a third time, so he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." Then Eli realized that Yahweh was calling the boy.
1 Samuel 3:9 (show verse)
So Eli said to Samuel "Go lie down. {If he calls} to you, then you must say, 'Speak Yahweh, because your servant [is] listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 3:10 (show verse)
Then Yahweh came and stood [there] and called out {as before}, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant [is] listening."
1 Samuel 3:11 (show verse)
So Yahweh said to Samuel, "Look, I am doing something in Israel {which will cause} the two ears of everyone who hears it to tingle.
1 Samuel 3:12 (show verse)
On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken against his household, {from beginning to end}.
1 Samuel 3:13 (show verse)
I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons [were] bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them.
1 Samuel 3:14 (show verse)
Therefore I swore to the house of Eli [that] the iniquity of the house of Eli would not be atoned for by sacrifice or by offering forever."
1 Samuel 3:15 (show verse)
So Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, but Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli.
1 Samuel 3:16 (show verse)
Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" And he said, "Here I am."
1 Samuel 3:17 (show verse)
And he said, "What [is] the message that he spoke to you? Please do not conceal [it] from me. May God {punish you severely} if you conceal anything from me of all the words that he told you."
1 Samuel 3:18 (show verse)
So Samuel told him all the words and did not conceal [anything] from him. And he said, "He [is] Yahweh, he will do {what is} good in his {sight}."
1 Samuel 3:19 (show verse)
And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. {He did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled}.
1 Samuel 3:20 (show verse)
All Israel from Dan to Beersheba realized that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 3:21 (show verse)
And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh.