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214 Figure 70 of Yahweh, where the Ark of Elohim was. And Yahweh called out to Samuel; and Samuel answered "Here I am," and ran to Eli, saying: "Here I am, for thou hast called me." But Eli said no, he had not called Samuel, and told the boy to go back to sleep. Once again Yahweh called Samuel, and once again Samuel went to Eli only to be told that the priest did not call him. But when that happened the third time, "Eli understood that it was Yahweh calling the boy." So he instructed him to answer, if it ever happens again, "Speak O Yahweh, for thy servant listens." And _ thereafter "Yahweh came, and stood upright, and called ‘Samuel, Sam- uel' from time to time; and each time Samuel answered ‘speak, for thy servant listens'". An artist in thirteenth cen- tury A.D. France did his best to depict the first dream theoph- any and the final Divine Encounter of Samuel with Yahweh in a medieval illustrated Bible (Fig. 70). It will be recalled that the Divine Spirit that provided King David with the Tavnit and written instructions for the Jerusa- lem Temple came upon him as he sat himself before the Ark of the Covenant. The call upon Samuel also occurred as "he was lying in the sanctuary of Yahweh, where the Ark of DIVINE ENCOUNTERS