19. His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him year by year whenever she came up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
20. And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and he said, “May Yahweh give you an offspring from this woman in place of the petitioned one that she requested from Yahweh.” Then they went to their home.
21. Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh.
22. Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they were having sexual relations with the women who were serving at the entrance of the tent of assembly.
23. And he asked them, “Why are you doing all these things that I am hearing, namely, your evil dealings with all these people?
24. No, my sons, the report is not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.
25. If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?” But they did not obey their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them.