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26 Meanwhile, the child Samuel kept growing and increasing in favor both with Adonai and also with men.[a]

27 Now there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, “Thus says Adonai: Did I not reveal Myself clearly to the house of your father when they were in Egypt belonging to Pharaoh’s palace? 28 Also did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My kohanim, to officiate at My altar, to burn incense and to wear an ephod before Me? Did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of Bnei-Yisrael?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:26 cf. Luke 1:80; 2:40.