1 Samuel 2:18-26

18Now 1Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy 2wearing a linen ephod. 19And his mother would make for him a little 3robe and bring it up to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer 4the yearly sacrifice. 20Then Eli would 5bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the Lord give you 6children from this woman in place of the 7one she 8requested of the Lord.” And they went to their own 9home.

211011The Lord indeed visited Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And 12the boy Samuel grew up 13before the Lord.

22Now Eli was very old; and he heard about 14everything that his sons were doing to all Israel, and that they slept with 15the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 23So he said to them, “Why are you doing such things as these, the evil things that I hear from all these people? 24No, my sons; for the report is not good 16which I hear the Lord’s people circulating. 25If one person sins against another, 17God will mediate for him; but 18if a person 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 was continuing to grow and to be in favor both with the Lord and with people.