child

And they slew a bullocke, and brought the childe to Eli.

For this childe I prayed, and the LORD hath giuen me my petition, which I asked of him:

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the child did minister vnto the LORD before Eli the Priest.

¶ But Samuel ministred before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linnen Ephod.

1611 marginal noteExod. 28.4.

And the LORD visited Hannah, so that shee conceiued, and bare three sonnes, and two daughters: and the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

(And the child Samuel grew on, and was in fauour, both with the LORD, and also with men.)

¶ And the child Samuel ministred vnto the LORD before Eli: and the word of the LORD was precious in those daies; there was no open vision.

And the LORD called Samuel againe the third time. And hee arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here am I, for thou diddest call me. And Eli perceiued that the LORD had called the childe.

¶ And his daughter in law Phinehas wife was with childe neere to be deliuered: and when shee heard the tidings that the Arke of God was taken, and that her father in law, and her husband were dead, shee bowed her selfe and traueyled; for her paines came vpon her.

1611 marginal noteOr, to crie out.

1611 marginal noteHebr. were turned.

And she named the childe Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, (because the Arke of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.)

1611 marginal noteThat is, where is the glory?

1611 marginal noteOr, there is no glory.