(26) And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
How the mind of the Reader is relieved again and again in this melancholy account of Eli's sons, in the relation that is given by the Holy Ghost, of the progressive state of Samuel in the ways of the Lord. Reader! doth not this bring to your recollection what is said here of Samuel's Lord. See Luke 2:52.