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),
Dummelow agreed that the lamp here was the "seven-branched candlestick,"[14] and Keil also so identified it, adding the explanation that, "The seven lamps of the candlestick were put up and lighted every evening and burned through the night until all the oil was consumed."[15] Young, writing in the Wycliffe Bible Commentary, also supported this explanation, basing it upon the text in  Leviticus 24:2,3.[16]  This mention of the lamp of God therefore fixes the time of day as early in the morning just before the light went out of the seven-branched candlestick (lampstand).