“Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.”
Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him—*lo yada'a et-YHWH* (did not know the LORD) means relational knowledge, covenantal intimacy. The *dabar YHWH* had not been *nigla* (revealed, appeared) to him; he is about to receive his inaugural prophetic experience.
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