His parents were Elkanah and Hannah but he was raised by a man named Eli and grew up at a church.  
His parents were Elkanah and Hannah but he was raised by a man named Eli and grew up at a church.  He avoided patrilineal [pat-ri-LIN-ee-al] succession by passing over Jonathan and anointing David to succeed Saul as king of Israel. FTP, name this last of the judges and first of the prophets, whose books of the Bible follow Ruth and precede the books of Kings.
His parents were Elkanah and Hannah but he was raised by a man named Eli and grew up at a church.  
Samuel