And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: