1 Samuel 3:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.

Cross References

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make mortals more rare than fine gold and humans than the gold of Ophir.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then they left him there before the Lord and went home to Ramah, while the boy remained to minister to the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.

1 Samuel 2:18

Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:35

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who is left in your family shall come and prostrate himself before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, ‘Please put me in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’ ”

1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

1 Samuel 3:21

The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.