1. Now when Samuel got old, he appointed his sons to serve as Israel’s judges.
2. The name of his oldest son was Joel; the name of the second was Abijah. They served as judges in Beer-sheba.
3. But Samuel’s sons didn’t follow in his footsteps. They tried to turn a profit, they accepted bribes, and they perverted justice.
4. So all the Israelite elders got together and went to Samuel at Ramah.