1 Samuel 2:18

WEB

¹⁸But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

KJV

¹⁸¶ But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

BSB

¹⁸Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

FBV

¹⁸But Samuel served before the Lord—a boy dressed as a priest,^[+] wearing a linen ephod.

Extra References

Exodus 28:4

⁴These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

1 Samuel 3:1

¹The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.

1 Samuel 2:11

¹¹Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest.

2 Samuel 6:14

¹⁴David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:18

¹⁸The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

1 Chronicles 15:27

²⁷David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.

Leviticus 8:7

⁷He put the tunic on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him and fastened it to him with it.

1 Samuel 2:28

²⁸Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?