1Sa 2:18, 26, 3:19-20, 2Ch 34:3, Psa 71:17-18, Pro 8:13, Ecc 7:18 | ESV | STEP | Samuel was ministering before the Lord , a boy clothed with a linen ephod .

1 Samuel 2:18

18 ^aSamuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy ^bclothed with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:26

26 Now the boy Samuel ^ccontinued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.

1 Samuel 3:19-20

19 ^dAnd Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him ^eand let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel ^ffrom Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:3

3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the ^gAsherim, and the carved and the metal images.

Psalms 71:17-18

17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to ^hold age and gray hairs,
O God, ⁱdo not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.

Proverbs 8:13

13 ^jThe fear of the Lord is ^khatred of evil.
^lPride and arrogance and the way of evil
and ^mperverted speech I hate.

Ecclesiastes 7:18

18 It is good that you should take hold of ⁿthis, and from ^othat ^pwithhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.