1 Samuel 3:1

Modern English Version

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days. There was no vision coming forth.

Cross References

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, nor is there any among us who knows how long.

Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no vision, the people perish, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Ezekiel 7:26

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor. Then they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:18

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, as a boy, wearing a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:35

And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest; what is in My heart and in My soul he will do it. And I will build him a sure house, and it will walk before My anointed forever.

1 Samuel 2:36

But it will be that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and will say, Please attach me to one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.’ ”

1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel lay until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Now Samuel feared to report the vision to Eli.

1 Samuel 3:21

And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh. For the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.