1 Samuel 2:18 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with a linen ephod.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Now Samuel was serving the LORD. He was a young boy, clothed in a linen priestly vest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ But Samuel was ministering before the face of the Lord; he was a youth girded with a linen ephod.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:14

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

1 Chronicles 15:27

David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers; and David wore a linen ephod.

Exodus 28:4

These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a girdle; they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.

Leviticus 8:7

And he put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and girded him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod, binding it to him therewith.

1 Samuel 14:3

and Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy ministered to the Lord, in the presence of Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:28

And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me; and I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

1 Samuel 22:18

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 3:1

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.