1 Samuel 2:18-26

18And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

19And his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.

20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Jehovah. And they went to their own home.

21So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.

22And Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and that they lay with the women that served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

23And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.

24No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.

25If one man sin against another, 1God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.

26And the boy Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah and also with men.