10. The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’Then Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’
11. And the Lord said to Samuel: ‘See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle.
12. At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family – from beginning to end.
13. For I told him that I would judge his family for ever because of the sin he knew about; his sons uttered blasphemies against God,a and he failed to restrain them.
14. Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, “The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.” ’
15. Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the Lord. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,