Elkanah, the father of Samuel went home to Ramah, and the boy ministered to the lord, in the presence of Eli the priest.
The sons of Eli were worthless men. They had no regard for the Lord.

The custom of the priest with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, and he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot.

All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself.
So they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.

If the man said to him, let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish, he would say, No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.

The sins of the young men were very great in the sight of the lord, for the men treated the offering of the lord with contempt.

Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy girded with a linen ephod. And his mother used to make him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, the lord give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the lord, so then they would return to their home.

And the lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Samuel grew in the presence of the lord.

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