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God Calls Samuel

The boy Samuel was Eli’s helper and served the Lord with him. At that time the Lord did not speak directly to people very often. There were very few visions.

Eli’s eyes were getting so weak that he was almost blind. One night he went to his room to go to bed. The special lamp in the Lord’s temple[a] was still burning, so Samuel lay down in the temple near where the Holy Box was.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 3:3 temple This could mean the Holy Tent at Shiloh where people went to worship the Lord or a larger area where they put the Holy Tent.

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