1 Samuel 3:7

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

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KJV

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.

ASV

Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither was the word of Jehovah yet revealed unto him.

YLT

And Samuel hath not yet known Jehovah, and the word of Jehovah is not yet revealed unto him.

DBT

Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither had the word of Jehovah yet been revealed to him.

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11. What is it that Eli commands the boy who was called to return to sleep, except that he shows preachers to prepare themselves through quietness of mind for receiving the gift of interior grace? And it should be noted that it says: "Return." For Samuel returns when the chosen preacher goes back from meditation on sacred Scripture to the secret of interior contemplation. Having returned, therefore, he slept, because he rested in the intention of interior contemplation.

Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 3, Chapter 1, 604patristic

Related commentary

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Did not yet know the Lord - i. e. in His supernatural communication, as follows at the end of the verse. The text rendering of this verse is better than that of the margin.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Did not know - He was not acquainted with God in that extraordinary or prophetical way. And this ignorance of Samuel's served God's design, that his simplicity might give Eli the better assurance of the truth of God's call, and message to Samuel.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

The witness of the Spirit in the hearts of the faithful is often thus mistaken, by which means they lose the comfort of it; and the strivings of the Spirit with the consciences of sinners are likewise often mistaken, and so the benefit of their convictions is lost.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rabbinic commentary

How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse — and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

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The verses this one reaches3

Acts 19:2
and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

PersonJudges to monarchySamuelAsked of God by Hannah and lent to the LORD at Shiloh; the last judge and first of the prophets after Moses, who anointed both Sau…

David Slays Goliath — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:17
  Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Galatians 6:14
  But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- 1 Corinthians 1:31
  Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Micah 6:8
  He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Micah 7:18
  Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Through
Acts 19:2
and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
leads to
- Galatians 3:5
  Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- Acts 11:15–17
  As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.

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