3 Regum 3:9

Nova Vulgata

et ait: "Ecce ego, quia vocasti me". Intellexit igitur Heli quia Dominus vocaret puerum, et ait ad Samuel: "Vade et dormi; et, si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: "Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus"". Abiit ergo Samuel et dormivit in loco suo.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et ait illi : Quæ es ? Illaque respondit : Ego sum Ruth ancilla tua : expande pallium tuum super famulam tuam, quia propinquus es.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
et ait: Ecce ego, quia vocasti me. Intellexit ergo Heli quia Dominus vocaret puerum: et ait ad Samuelem: Vade, et dormi: et si deinceps vocaverit te, dices: Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus. Abiit ergo Samuel, et dormivit in loco suo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Speak: Exodus 20:19, Psalms 85:8, Isaiah 6:8, Daniel 10:19, Acts 9:6

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:14 - What saith

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, go, lie down,.... Once more;

and it shall be, if he call thee; the voice, or the Lord by it:

that thou shalt say, speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth; his meaning is, that he should not rise and come to him, as he had done, but continue on his bed, on hearing the voice again, but desire the Lord to speak to him what he had to say, to which he was ready to attend:

so Samuel went and lay down in his place; which, as commonly understood, was in the court of the Levites, :-.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 3:9. Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth — This was the usual way in which the prophets spoke, when they had intimations that the Lord was about to make some especial revelation.