18So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, "He is the Lord ; let him do what is good in his eyes."


In Context

15 Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the Lord . He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

16 but Eli called him and said, "Samuel, my son." Samuel answered, "Here I am."

17 "What was it he said to you?" Eli asked. "Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from me anything he told you."

18 So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, "He is the Lord ; let him do what is good in his eyes."

19 The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground.

20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord .

1st Samuel 3:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:18So 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what seemeth him good.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him all the words, and kept nothing back from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what is good in his sight.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, |It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel declareth to him the whole of the words, and hath not hid from him; and he saith, 'It is Jehovah; that which is good in His eyes He doth.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seems him good.