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Chapter 3

Samuel’s Call.[a] Young Samuel ministered to the Lord under Eli. Now the word of the Lord was rare in those days, there were not many visions. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow so weak so that he could not see well anymore, was lying down in his place.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 3:1 Mysteriously touched by the Lord, whose call he does not initially recognize, the boy Samuel serves his apprenticeship as a prophet, learning to listen to and transmit the word of the Lord; he thus becomes the first in the long line of the prophets (see Jer 28:8).