The Prophetic Call to Samuel

3 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.

^3 (A)For many days Israel was without the true God and without ^(B)a teaching priest and without the Law.

^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.