The women who assembled — Or, “served.” See the marginal reference and note. This service probably consisted of work for the tabernacle’s fa…

The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary—The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli—The Doom of the House of Ithamar.

But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to …

Now Eli was very old
It is very probable he was now about ninety years of age, since when he died he was ninety eight, ([Refer…

Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did t…