8. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am. You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth.
9. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” When Samuel went to sleep in his place,
10. the Lord came and stood there, calling out as before: Samuel, Samuel! Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
11. The Lord said to Samuel: I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears it ring.
12. On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have said about his house, beginning to end.
13. I announce to him that I am condemning his house once and for all, because of this crime: though he knew his sons were blaspheming God, he did not reprove them.
14. Therefore, I swear to Eli’s house: No sacrifice or offering will ever expiate its crime.
15. Samuel then slept until morning, when he got up early and opened the doors of the temple of the Lord. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,
16. but Eli called to him, “Samuel, my son!” He replied, “Here I am.”
17. Then Eli asked, “What did he say to you? Hide nothing from me! May God do thus to you, and more, if you hide from me a single thing he told you.”
18. So Samuel told him everything, and held nothing back. Eli answered, “It is the Lord. What is pleasing in the Lord’s sight, the Lord will do.”
19. Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to go unfulfilled.
20. Thus all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba came to know that Samuel was a trustworthy prophet of the Lord.
21. The Lord continued to appear at Shiloh, manifesting himself to Samuel at Shiloh through his word. Samuel’s word spread throughout Israel.