Quotes About Communication

Then the LORD called to Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.”

Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.”

Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”

but Eli called to him and said, “Samuel, my son.” “Here I am,” answered Samuel.

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuelís words fall to the ground.

And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.

When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

“I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. And when I send you off in the morning, I will tell you all that is in your heart.

And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.

As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.

Now Saulís uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied. “When we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”

“Tell me,” Saulís uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”

And Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.

Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

If they say, ëWait until we come to you,í then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying,

“Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

Now Davidís words were overheard and reported to Saul, who called for him.