Scriptures

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Samuel 2
³⁴ This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.
³⁵ But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.
³⁶ Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, "Please assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread."’"
1 Samuel 3
¹ Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And word from the Lord was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.
² It happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well),
³ and the 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,
⁴ that the Lord called Samuel; and he said, "Here I am."
⁵ Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, lie down again." So he went and lay down.
⁶ The Lord called yet again, "Samuel!" So Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he answered, "I did not call, my son, lie down again."
⁷ Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him.
⁸ So the Lord called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli discerned that the Lord was calling the boy.