{"id":56942,"date":"2019-06-05T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56942"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:26:42","slug":"his-masters-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/his-masters-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"His Master\u2019s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[384,839,833],"acf":{"old_id":"56942","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"235","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter recounts Samuel\u2019s first prophetic experience. He mistook the voice of God for that of Eli\u2014not once or even twice but three times\u2014responding, in each case, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hinneni<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, here I am, exactly as the Patriarch Abraham responded to God\u2019s summons in Genesis 22:1. Eli explained to his charge that God was calling him and that he should acknowledge Him and request his instructions, and so he does\u2014the fourth time around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Scripture is silent on the question of exactly how those summonses were issued, it provides us with enough information for some informed speculation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, it tells us that in each of the misinterpreted instances, Samuel presented himself to Eli, which implies that Samuel identified the voice of the summons with that of his priestly mentor. The fact that he continued to respond to Eli after discovering\u2014not once but twice\u2014that Eli had not summoned him only strengthens our assumption that the voice calling out \u201cSamuel\u201d sounded like Eli\u2019s because no other facts fit the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our first conclusion, then, is that when God communicated with people, He utilized familiar voices they could readily identify as being those of authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A second observation attaches to Eli\u2019s reactions. The first time his reply is terse and, perhaps, even pointed: \u201cGo <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">back<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to bed\u201d (5). The second time, however, the \u201cgo back to bed\u201d is softened by the addition of \u201cmy son\u201d (6). \u00a0It seems to be dawning on Eli that more is afoot here than just a restless novice, and by the third time his reply is \u201cgo to bed\u201d (9) as though the clock were being entirely reset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A final observation attaches to the summons itself. While the first two times the voice called \u201cSamuel\u201d but once, the third time it called \u201cSamuel Samuel\u201d (10), the duplication of the name reminiscent of the doubled \u201cAbraham Abraham\u201d of Genesis 22:11 and the summons of \u201cMoses Moses\u201d at the burning bush (Exodus 3:4). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Eli and Samuel, by John Singleton Copley, 1780.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56943,"id":56943,"title":"isam3-Eli_and_Samuel","filename":"isam3-Eli_and_Samuel.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam3-Eli_and_Samuel.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/his-masters-voice\/isam3-eli_and_samuel\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam3-eli_and_samuel","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56942,"date":"2019-06-05 15:07:44","modified":"2019-06-05 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