1 Samuel 3:1-3

1Now 1the boy Samuel was attending to the service of the Lord before Eli. And 2word from the Lord was rare in those days; 3visions were infrequent.

2But it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now 4his eyesight had begun to be 5poor and he could not see well), 3and 6the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,