The Koine Bible

And the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli the priest, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no vision that was distinctively appearing.

And it came to pass on that day that Eli was sleeping in his place, and his eyes began to grow heavy, and he was not able to see.

And the lamp of God had not yet been trimmed, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple where the ark of God was.

And the Lord called Samuel, Samuel, and he said, Behold, I am here.

And he ran to Heli and said, Behold, here I am, because you have called me. And he said, I have not called you; turn back, sleep. And he turned back and slept.

And the Lord continued and called, Samuel, Samuel. And he went to Eli a second time and said, Behold, I, because you have called me. And he said, I have not called you; return, sleep.

And Samuel, before he knew God and before a word of the Lord was revealed to him

And the Lord called Samuel a third time; and he arose and went to Eli and said, Behold, I, for you have called me. And Eli understood that the Lord had called the boy.

And he said, Turn back, sleep, child, and it shall be if he calls you, then you shall say, Speak, Lord, because your servant listens. And Samuel went and lay down in his place.

And the Lord came and stood and called him as once and once, and he said, Samuel, speak, for your servant is listening.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I am doing my words in Israel, so that of everyone hearing them, both his ears will ring.

On that day I will raise up against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and I will bring to completion.

And I told him that I am avenging his house forever because of the iniquities of his sons, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not admonish them, and not even so

I swore to the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be atoned for by incense and by sacrifices forever

And Samuel lay down until morning, and he rose early in the morning and opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and Samuel feared to tell Eli the vision.

And Eli said to Samuel, Samuel, my child. And he said, Behold, I am here.

And he said, What is the word that was spoken to you? Please do not hide from me. Thus may God do to you, and thus may he add, if you hide from me a word from all the words that were spoken to you in your ears.

And Samuel reported all the words and did not hide from him, and Eli said, The Lord, he is; the good before him he will do.

And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and none of all his words fell to the ground.

And all Israel knew, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, that Samuel was established as a prophet to the Lord.

And the Lord continued to be manifested in Shiloh, because the Lord was revealed to Samuel; and Samuel was trusted to become a prophet to the Lord for all Israel, from the ends of the land and to the ends; and Eli was very old, and his sons were going, they were going, and their way was evil before the Lord.