* Now Samuel.
   Or, Thus did Samuel before he knew the Lord, and before the
   word of the Lord was revealed unto him.

 * did not yet.
   Samuel was not destitute of the knowledge of God, in that
   sense which implies the total absence of true piety, as Eli's
   sons were; for he knew and worshipped the God of Israel:  but
   he did not know him as communicating special revelations of
   his will to him, in the manner in which he made it known to
   the prophets.

  Jer 9:24  Ac 19:2