1 Samuel 2:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In some way agreeable to his tender years, as in singing, or playing upon instruments of music, as they used then to do in God's service; or lighting the lamps, or some other way. For I suppose Samuel was not brought to the tabernacle in such tender years as some think; of which See Poole on "1 Samuel 1:22". Before Eli the priest, i.e. under the inspection and by the direction and instruction of Eli.