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The historical books of the Old Testament recount the fortunes of the people of Israel beginning with the conquest of the Promised Land. Joshua through Kings bring the story up to the point where the independent kingdom of Judah is destroyed by foreign invaders and much of the population deported to Babylon. This is a book about history, but what it deals with particularly is salvation history;...

3:1–21. The account of Samuel’s vocation is a good example of a divine calling to perform a special mission: it shows both the attitudes that the person called should have and the demands that the divine call implies. Firstly (vv. 1–3), we are introduced to the protagonists (the Lord, Eli, Samuel) and the circumstances in which the action occurs—night-time when everyone is asleep, the temple, the ark, and the lamp of God still burning; all this shows that something exceptional is
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