3 All the while the boy Samuel was ministering+ to Jehovah before Eʹli, and word from Jehovah+ had become rare in those days;+ there was no vision+ being spread abroad.

26 There will come adversity upon adversity,+ and there will occur report upon report, and people will actually seek a vision from a prophet,+ and the law itself will perish from a priest and counsel from elderly men.+

4 But in reply he said: “It is written, ‘Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s* mouth.’”+