(A) Birth of Samuel, with the embedded prayer of Hannah (1:1–2:11) (B) Sins of Eli’s sons (2:12–17) (A) Samuel and his family (2:18–21a), with a note of Samuel’s growth (2:21b) (B) Sins of Eli’s sons (2:22–25), with a note of Samuel’s growth (2:26), followed by (B) A divine message to Eli through “a man of God” (2:27–36) (A) The prophetic call of Samuel (3:1–21). There is a “resumptive repetition” of the expression, “the boy/Samuel was ministering to/before the Lord,” in 1 Sam. 2:11a, 18. In this
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