The Prophetic Call to Samuel

Now (A)the boy Samuel was attending to the service of the Lord before Eli. And (B)word from the Lord was rare in those days; [a]visions were infrequent.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 3:1 Lit there was no vision spreading

The Lord Calls Samuel

The boy Samuel ministered(A) before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare;(B) there were not many visions.(C)

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Her (A)gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her leaders are among the nations;
The (B)Law is gone.
Her prophets, too, find
(C)No vision from the Lord.

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Her gates(A) have sunk into the ground;
    their bars(B) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(C) among the nations,
    the law(D) is no more,
and her prophets(E) no longer find
    visions(F) from the Lord.

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26 (A)Disaster will come upon disaster and (B)rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a (C)vision from a prophet, but the (D)Law will be lost from the priest, and (E)counsel from the elders.

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26 Calamity upon calamity(A) will come,
    and rumor upon rumor.
They will go searching for a vision from the prophet,(B)
    priestly instruction in the law will cease,
    the counsel of the elders will come to an end.(C)

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11 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
But rather (A)for hearing the words of the Lord.

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11 “The days are coming,”(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)

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