18But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.
19And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.
20And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.
21And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.
22Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
23And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.
24No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.
