God Speaks to Samuel

I Samuel 3:11-21 (KJV)

The Lord told Samuel that He would bring to pass all the things He had spoken against the house of Eli because Eli had not kept his sons from their iniquity.  God was so displeased with the house of Eli that sacrifice or offering would not erase the sins.

The following morning Samuel was afraid to tell Eli what God had spoken.  “Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son.  And he answered, Here am I.  And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.  And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him.  And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good” (vs. 16-18).

“And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.  And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord.  And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh: for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord” (vs. 19-21).