1 En die seun Samuel het die HERE gedien voor Eli, en die woord van die HERE was skaars in die dae: gesigte was daar nie baie nie.

2 In die tyd dan terwyl Eli op sy plek lê en slaap -- sy oë het al begin swak word, sodat hy nie kon sien nie --

3 toe die lamp van God nog nie doodgegaan het nie, en Samuel lê en slaap in die tempel van die HERE waar die ark van God was,

4 het die HERE na Samuel geroep; en hy het geantwoord: Hier is ek.

5 Daarop loop hy na Eli en sê: Hier is ek, want u het my geroep. Maar hy antwoord: Ek het nie geroep nie; gaan slaap maar weer. Hy het toe geloop en gaan lê.

6 Verder het die HERE Samuel weer geroep, en Samuel het opgestaan en na Eli gegaan en gesê: Hier is ek, want u het my geroep. Maar hy antwoord: Ek het nie geroep nie, my seun, gaan slaap maar weer.

7 Maar Samuel het die HERE nog nie geken nie; ook was die woord van die HERE nog nie aan hom geopenbaar nie.

8 En die HERE het Samuel weer geroep vir die derde maal; en hy het opgestaan en na Eli gegaan en gesê: Hier is ek, want u het my geroep. Toe merk Eli dat die HERE die seun geroep het.

9 Daarom het Eli vir Samuel gesê: Gaan lê, en as Hy jou roep, moet jy antwoord: Spreek, HERE, want u kneg hoor. Toe het Samuel geloop en op sy plek gaan lê.

10 Toe het die HERE gekom en gaan staan en geroep soos die vorige kere: Samuel, Samuel! En Samuel het geantwoord: Spreek, want u kneg hoor.

11 Toe het die HERE aan Samuel gesê: Kyk, Ek gaan 'n ding doen in Israel waarvan elkeen wat dit hoor, se twee ore sal tuit.

12 Di, dag sal Ek aan Eli vervul alles wat Ek oor sy huis gespreek het, van begin tot end.

13 En Ek sal hom te kenne gee dat Ek sy huis gaan oordeel tot in ewigheid oor die ongeregtigheid wat hy geweet het; want toe sy seuns skande oor hulleself gebring het, het hy hulle nie streng bestraf nie.

14 En daarom sweer Ek aangaande die huis van Eli: Waarlik die ongeregtigheid van die huis van Eli sal tot in ewigheid nie deur slagoffer of spysoffer versoen word nie.

15 En Samuel het bly lê tot die môre toe. En hy het die deure van die huis van die HERE oopgemaak; maar Samuel was bevrees om die gesig aan Eli mee te deel.

16 En Eli het Samuel geroep en gesê: Samuel, my seun! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek.

17 Toe vra hy: Wat is die woord wat Hy met jou gespreek het? Verberg dit tog nie vir my nie. Mag God so aan jou doen en so daaraan toedoen as jy iets van al die woorde wat Hy met jou gespreek het, vir my verberg.

18 En Samuel het hom al die woorde meegedeel, en niks vir hom verberg nie. En hy het gesê: Hy is die HERE; laat Hom doen wat goed is in sy oë.

19 En Samuel het groot geword, en die HERE was met hom; en Hy het nie een van al sy woorde onvervuld laat bly nie.

20 En die hele Israel van Dan tot Bers,ba het erken dat Samuel betroubaar was as 'n profeet van die HERE.

21 En die HERE het weer verskyn in Silo; want die HERE het Hom geopenbaar aan Samuel in Silo deur die woord van die HERE.

1 Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

2 And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)

3 And the light of God was still burning, while Samuel was sleeping in the Temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,

4 The voice of the Lord said Samuel's name; and he said, Here am I.

5 And running to Eli he said, Here am I, for you said my name. And Eli said, I did not say your name; go to your rest again. So he went back to his bed.

6 And again the Lord said, Samuel. And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. But he said in answer, I said nothing, my son; go to your rest again.

7 Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.

8 And for the third time the Lord said Samuel's name. And he got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. Then it was clear to Eli that the voice which had said the child's name was the Lord's.

9 So Eli said to Samuel, Go back: and if the voice comes again, let your answer be, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open. So Samuel went back to his bed.

10 Then the Lord came and said as before, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel made answer, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open.

11 And the Lord said to Samuel, See, I will do a thing in Israel at which the ears of everyone hearing of it will be burning.

12 In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.

13 And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.

14 So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

15 And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.

16 Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.

17 And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.

18 Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

19 And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.

20 And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.

21 And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.