19 His mother would make a small robe for him and take it to him every year when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: "May the Lord replace the child of this woman that you gave back to the Lord." Then they would return home.
21 The Lord paid attention to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the Lord’s service.
22 Eli was very old, but he heard everything his sons were doing to the Israelites, and how they had sex with the women who served at the meeting tent’s entrance.
23 Eli said to his sons, "Why are you doing these terrible things that I’m hearing about from everybody?
24 No, my sons. Don’t do this. The report I hear spreading among God’s people isn’t good.
25 If someone sins against someone else, God can intercede; but if someone sins against the Lord, who will intercede then?" But they wouldn’t obey their father because the Lord wanted to kill them.