1 Samuel 3:1 - Tree of Life Version

¹ Now the boy Samuel was in the service of Adonai under Eli. In those days the word of Adonai was rare—there were no visions breaking through.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW THE boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. The word of the Lord was rare and precious in those days; there was no frequent or widely spread vision.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And the child Samuel ministered unto Jehovah before Eli. And the word of Jehovah was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.

Common English Bible

¹ Now the boy Samuel was serving the LORD under Eli. The LORD’s word was rare at that time, and visions weren’t widely known.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no manifest vision.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days: there was no manifest vision.

1 Samuel 3:1 Cross References

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our signs. No longer is there any prophet— and no one among us knows how long.

Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no divine vision people cast off restraint, but blessed is the one who keeps Torah.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make people scarcer than gold, even than the pure gold of Ophir.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will seek a vision from a prophet, but Torah will perish from the kohen and counsel from the elders.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, while the boy served Adonai before Eli the kohen.

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel was ministering before Adonai, as a boy girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:35

“Yet I will raise up for Myself a faithful kohen who will do according to what is in My heart and My mind. Then I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one all the time.

1 Samuel 2:36

Anyone left in your household will come and bow low to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say: ‘Please, assign me to one of the priestly offices so that I may eat a morsel of bread.’”

1 Samuel 3:15

Then Samuel lay down until the morning, when he opened the doors of the House of Adonai. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

1 Samuel 3:21

Adonai started to appear once more in Shiloh, for Adonai revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Adonai.