The Lord said to Samuel: “How long will you grieve for Saul, whom I have rejected as king of Israel?

Samuel said to Saul: “Stop!

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been ­sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

The Lord said to me: You are my servant,/ Israel, through whom I show my glory./ Now the Lord has spoken/ who formed me as his servant from the womb,/ that Jacob may be brought back to him/ and Israel gathered to him;/ and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,/ and my God is now my strength!/ It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant,/ to raise up the tribes of Jacob,/ and restore the survivors of Israel;/ I will make you a light to the nations,/ that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

There was a stalwart man from Benjamin named Kish, who was the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite.

Samuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.

The Philistines gathered for an attack on Israel.

During the time young Samuel was minister to the Lord under Eli, a revelation of the Lord was uncommon and vision infrequent.

Hannah rose after a meal at Shiloh, and presented herself before the Lord; at the time, Eli the priest was sitting on a chair near the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.

There was a certain man from Ramathaim, Elkanah by name, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim.