The Lord called Samuel by name, but Samuel thought Eli was calling and ran to him repeatedly. After the third time, Eli realized it was the Lord. 1 Samuel 3:4–8

Saul went to a city to consult the “seer,” and as he entered the gate, Samuel was coming out. The Lord had told Samuel the day before that he would send him a man from Benjamin. 1 Samuel 9:14–17

After Hannah denied being drunk and described her distress, Eli told her to go in peace. He also said the God of Israel would grant her petition. 1 Samuel 1:15–17

Eli’s sons took meat from worshipers by force and demanded choice portions before the fat was burned. The text says they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt. 1 Samuel 2:12–17

After Samuel was weaned, Hannah brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh with offerings. She then left the child there with Eli, fulfilling her vow. 1 Samuel 1:24–28

Samuel said Israel must put away foreign gods and the Ashtaroth and direct their heart to the Lord, serving him only. He said the Lord would deliver them from the Philistines. 1 Samuel 7:3

Dagon fell facedown before the ark of the Lord, and when they set him up again, he fell a second time. His head and hands were broken off on the threshold. 1 Samuel 5:3–4

Israel was struck with a severe defeat, and the ark of God was captured. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died in the same battle. 1 Samuel 4:10–11

After the Lord routed the Philistines, Samuel set up a stone between Mizpah and Shen and named it Ebenezer. He said, “Till now the Lord has helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12

A man of God said the Lord would cut off strength from Eli’s house so that none would grow old. As a sign, both of Eli’s sons would die on the same day. 1 Samuel 2:31–34

God told Samuel he would judge Eli’s house for the iniquity Eli knew about, because his sons were blaspheming and he did not restrain them. The text says the iniquity of Eli’s house would not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering. 1 Samuel 3:11–14

Hannah vowed that if the Lord gave her a son, she would give him to the Lord all his life. She also said no razor would touch his head. 1 Samuel 1:11

Samuel warned that a king would take sons for war and labor, daughters for service, and the best fields and produce. He also said the people would cry out because of their king, but the Lord would not answer. 1 Samuel 8:11–18

The Philistines yoked two milk cows to a new cart and kept their calves at home. If the cows went straight to Israel’s territory, it would show the Lord had caused the calamity. 1 Samuel 6:7–9

Men from Kiriath-jearim brought the ark to the house of Abinadab on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to have charge of the ark. 1 Samuel 7:1

Eli saw Hannah’s lips moving but did not hear her voice, because she was praying silently. He assumed she had been drinking and confronted her. 1 Samuel 1:12–14

The elders said Samuel was old and his sons did not walk in his ways, so they asked for a king to judge them like the nations. The Lord told Samuel the people had rejected him as king over them. 1 Samuel 8:4–7

After being defeated, Israel’s elders decided to bring the ark from Shiloh so it would “save” them from their enemies. Hophni and Phinehas carried it with them. 1 Samuel 4:3–4

Philistine priests and diviners said to return the ark with a guilt offering so God’s hand might turn away from them. They made images of their tumors and mice as the offering. 1 Samuel 6:3–5

Hannah wept and would not eat because she had no children, and her rival wife provoked her painfully. This happened during the family’s yearly worship trip to Shiloh. 1 Samuel 1:6–7

Hannah named the child Samuel because, she said, she asked for him from the Lord. The name is linked in the text to her request and God’s answer. 1 Samuel 1:20

Phinehas’s wife named her son Ichabod because, she said, “The glory has departed from Israel.” She linked it to the capture of the ark and the deaths in Eli’s house. 1 Samuel 4:21–22

The Lord struck men of Beth-shemesh because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. The people mourned and asked who could stand before the Lord, this holy God. 1 Samuel 6:19–20