Samuel Was Not As Yet Used To Hearing The Word Of YHWH (1 Samuel 3:7)
‘ Now Samuel did not yet know YHWH, nor was the word of YHWH yet revealed to him.'
We are now given the reason for Samuel's confusion. Up to this point he did not ‘know YHWH' In other words he had never had personal and specific communication with Him and from Him. This was indeed the day on which he would become ‘a man of God, a prophet'. For from now on he would continue to hear the voice of YHWH. The long years of darkness for Israel were over. Spiritually the light would not go out. Rather it would go on shining ever more brightly as the years went by.