◄ 1 Samuel 3:18 ►
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Good News Translation
So Samuel told him everything; he did not keep anything back. Eli said, "He is the LORD; he will do whatever seems best to him."

New Revised Standard Version
So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. Then he said, “It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him.”

Contemporary English Version
Samuel told Eli everything. Then Eli said, "He is the LORD, and he will do what's right."

New American Bible
So Samuel told him everything, and held nothing back. Eli answered, “It is the LORD. What is pleasing in the LORD’s sight, the LORD will do.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.

It is the Lord

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Judges 10:15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

2 Samuel 16:10-12 And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so? . . .

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 2:10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

Isaiah 39:8 And Ezechias said to Isaiah: The word of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.

Lamentations 3:39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

Context
Samuel Shares the Vision
…17And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said to thee. 18So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his words fell to the ground.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:5
And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.

Leviticus 10:3
And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.

Judges 10:15
And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

2 Samuel 10:12
Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

2 Samuel 15:26
But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let him do that which is good before him.

2 Kings 20:19
Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is good: let peace and truth be in my days.

Job 2:10
And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Isaiah 39:8
And Ezechias said to Isaiah: The word of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.

Jeremiah 34:6
And Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Sedecias the king of Juda in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 38:14
And king Sedecias sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him to the third gate, that was in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah: I will ask thee a thing, hide nothing from me.

Jeremiah 42:4
And Jeremiah the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.

1 Samuel 3:17
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