Again GOD called, “Samuel!” Samuel rose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But he replied, “I didn’t call, my son; go back to sleep.”—
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויסף
156
יהוה
26
קרא
301
עוד
80
שמואל
377
ויקם
156
שמואל
377
וילך
66
אלעלי
141
ויאמר
257
הנני
115
כי
30
קראת
701
לי
40
ויאמר
257
לאקראתי
742
בני
62
שוב
308
שכב
322
I Samuel 3:7
Gematria: 1725
ושמואלטרםידעאתיהוהוטרםיגלהאליודבריהוה
Now Samuel had not yet experienced GOD; the word of GOD had not yet been revealed to him.—
GOD called Samuel again, a third time, and he rose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli understood that GOD was calling the boy.
And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down. If you are called again, say, ‘Speak, GOD, for Your servant is listening.’” And Samuel went to his place and lay down.
GOD
started communicating,astarted communicating Lit. “came and stood there”; cf. Abravanel. calling as before: “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”
And I declare to him that I sentence his house to endless punishment for the iniquity he knew about—how his sons committed sacrilege at willbat will Meaning of Heb. uncertain. Septuagint reads “against God.”—and he did not rebuke them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והגדתי
428
לו
36
כישפט
419
אני
61
אתביתו
819
עדעולם
220
בעון
128
אשרידע
585
כימקללים
280
להם
75
בניו
68
ולא
37
כהה
30
בם
42
I Samuel 3:14
Gematria: 3239
ולכןנשבעתילביתעליאםיתכפרעוןביתעליבזבחובמנחהעדעולם
Assuredly, I swear concerning the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli will never be expiated by sacrifice or offering.”
And [Eli] asked, “What did [God] say to you? Keep nothing from me. Thus and more may God do to youcThus and more may God do to you A formula of adjuration. if you keep from me a single word of all that was said to you!”