the infant samuel Samuel is a leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. His status, as viewed by
Samuel is a leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. His status, as viewed by rabbinical literature, is that he was the last of the Hebrew Judges and the first of the major prophets who began to prophesy inside the Land of Israel. He was thus at the cusp between two eras. According to the text of the Book(s) of Samuel, he also anointed the first two kings of the Kingdom of Israel: King Saul and King David. According to 1 Samuel 1:20, Hannah was the mother of Samuel and named him in memory of her requesting a child from God and God listening. Samuel is translated as Heard of God or possibly as a sentence "God has heard", from 'Shama', heard and 'El', god)with "Shama" as the verb and "El" as the subject. However, some textual scholars[who?] think that the passage originally referred to King Saul, whose name means "asked" and was later changed by an anti-monarchial editor, so that Saul would no longer appear to have a divinely appointed birth. Another conceivable translation of Hebrew (Shmu'el in Hebrew) is Name of God (from Shem, meaning name), a reference to the Tetragrammaton. At maturity (probably around the age of 12), according to the text, during a certain night Samuel began to hear a voice calling his name; he initially assumed it was coming from Eli and went to Eli to ask what he wished to say. Eli, however, sent Samuel back to sleep. After a few times Eli told Samuel that the voice was God's, and instructed Samuel on how to respond. Once Samuel responded God told him that the wickedness of the sons of Eli had resulted in their dynasty being condemned to destruction. Eli asked Samuel to honestly recount to him what he had been told, and upon receiving the communication merely said that God should do what seems right to Himself.
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