It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
The opinions of scholars such as W. H. Bennett who thought that Samuel slept in the Holy of Holies in order to protect the ark of the covenant[11] and G. B. Caird who wrote that, "Samuel slept in the chamber where the ark was kept,"[12] should be rejected, because only the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies and not even he could enter it except on the Day of Atonement once a year.  Opinions such as these just cited are grossly in error due to commentators' acceptance of the fairy tale about a LATE DATE for the Pentateuch!