The Lamp Had Not Yet Gone Out
“Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; the lamp of God had not yet gone out.” So begins our OT story about the call of the prophet Samuel.
The setting of this story is more than just practical information—
it foreshadows the entire story.
For indeed, there