1 Samuel 2:18-26

18Now 1Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy 23wearing a linen ephod. 19And his mother would make him a little 4robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer 5the yearly sacrifice. 20Then Eli would 6bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord give you 7children from this woman in place of 8the one she 9dedicated to the Lord.” And they went to their own 10home.

2111The Lord visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And 12the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.

22Now Eli was very old; and he heard 13all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with 14the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 23He said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people? 24No, my sons; for the report is not good 15which I hear 16the Lord’s people circulating. 25If one man sins against another, 17God will mediate for him; but 18if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the 19Lord desired to put them to death.

26Now the boy 20Samuel 21was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.