17. Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord.
18. Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.
19. And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20. Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord." And they went to their own home.
21. The Lord visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.
22. Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
23. He said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?
24. No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord's people circulating.