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.
26 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel kept growing up and was more and more liked by both the Lord and the people.
27 Now a man of God came to Eli and said, "This is what the Lord says: I revealed myself very clearly to your father’s household when they were slaves in Egypt to the house of Pharaoh.