After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.
The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”
Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
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