3:1Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days: there was no open vision. 3:2So it came about on a certain day, Eli was lying in his place, and his eyes had grown dim, and he could not see: before the lamp of God was put out, Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. 3:4And the Lord called Samuel. 3:4He, answering, said: "Here I am." 3:5And he ran to Eli, and said: "Here I am: for you called me." 3:5He said: "I did not call: go back, and sleep."
3:5And he went off, and slept. 3:6And the Lord added again to call Samuel. 3:6And Samuel, rising up, went off to Eli, and said: "Here I am, because you called me." 3:6He answered: "I did not call you, my son: go back and sleep." 3:7Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord been revealed to him. 3:8And the Lord added, and called Samuel again a third time. 3:8He, rising up, went off to Eli, and said: "Here I am, because you called me." 3:9So Eli understood that the Lord was calling the boy: and he said to Samuel: "Go, and sleep: and if hereafter he calls you, you will say: Speak, Lord, because your servant is listening."
3:9So Samuel went off, and slept in his place. 3:10And the Lord came, and stood: and he called, just as he had called the second time: "Samuel, Samuel." 3:10And Samuel said: "Speak, Lord, because your servant is listening." 3:11And the Lord said to Samuel: "Look, I am doing a thing in Israel, which, whoever hears it, both his ears will ring. 3:12On that day I will raise up against Eli all the things which I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will complete. 3:13For I foretold to him that I would judge his house for ever because of iniquity, because he knew that his sons were acting shamefully, and did not rebuke them.
3:14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of his house shall not be expiated by victims and gifts for ever." 3:15And Samuel slept until morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. 3:15And Samuel was afraid to make known the vision to Eli. 3:16So Eli called Samuel, and said: "Samuel, my son?" 3:16He, answering, said: "I am here." 3:17And he asked him: "What is the word which the Lord has spoken to you? 3:17I pray you, do not hide it from me: may God do these things to you, and add these things, if you conceal from me a word out of all the words which have been said to you."
3:18So Samuel made known to him all the words, and did not conceal them from him. 3:18And he answered: "He is the Lord: let him do what is good in his eyes." 3:19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and there did not fall to the ground anything out of all his words. 3:20And all Israel, from Dan as far as Beersheba, knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet of the Lord. 3:21And the Lord added to appear in Shiloh, since the Lord had been revealed to Samuel in Shiloh according to the word of the Lord. 3:21And the word of Samuel went out to all Israel.