Add parallel Print Page Options

Eli’s Wicked Sons

11 Then they left him there before the Lord and went[a] home to Ramah, while the boy remained to minister to the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2.11 Gk: Heb Then Elkanah went

11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah,(A) but the boy ministered(B) before the Lord under Eli the priest.

Read full chapter

The Child Samuel at Shiloh

18 Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.(A)

Read full chapter

18 But Samuel was ministering(A) before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.(B)

Read full chapter

11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord God,
    when I will send a famine on the land,
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
    but of hearing the words of the Lord.(A)

Read full chapter

11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)

Read full chapter