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1 Samuel 3:1-3
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 3:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 3
Samuel’s Call.[a] 1 Young Samuel ministered to the Lord under Eli. Now the word of the Lord was rare in those days, there were not many visions. 2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow so weak so that he could not see well anymore, was lying down in his place. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the Ark of God was kept.[b]
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- 1 Samuel 3:1 Mysteriously touched by the Lord, whose call he does not initially recognize, the boy Samuel serves his apprenticeship as a prophet, learning to listen to and transmit the word of the Lord; he thus becomes the first in the long line of the prophets (see Jer 28:8).
- 1 Samuel 3:3 The sacred lamp or candelabrum (Ex 27:20-21); in other words, it was still night.
