1 Samuel 2:11

1Sa 2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

Ver. 11. And the child did minister unto the Lord. ] He did such offices as he was able about the tabernacle; which was the more commendable in young Samuel to be so sedulous, because Eli’s sons were at the same time so corrupt and dissolute. The word here rendered child , is by the Dutch translated Der knaben, the knave; which with them signifieth child or servant; and so it did in old English, not as now, a wicked varlet. And therefore manifest wrong is done to John Wycliffe by Bellarmine and others, because that, disallowing the invocation of saints, he called them servants, knaves, which was then a good word, - not gods, as the Papists made them.