8And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
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For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. …
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)To make way for the account of God’s revealing himself first to Samuel, we are here told, 1. How industrious Samuel was in serving God, according as his place and capacity were (1 Sam. 3:1): The child Samuel , though but a child, ministered unto the Lord before Eli . It was an aggravation of the wickedness of Eli’s sons that the child Samuel shamed them. They rebelled against the Lord, but Samuel…
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