Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May the LORD give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of the LORD.”
Then they went to their own home.
The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters.
The child Samuel grew before the LORD.
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
He said to them, “Why do you do such things?
For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.