S. Arnott, Notes and Queries, Series 7, Volume 12…
“ Writing of the early years of Samuel, spent in ministering at the Temple, and describing his habits at that time, the dean says, "He [Samuel] seems to have slept within the Holiest Place." I once called the attention of the late Rev. H. B. W. Churton, of Icklesham, who was a competent Hebrew scholar, to this, as it appeared to me, highly gratuitous observation, and asked him whether, from his knowledge of the Hebrew text in 1 Samuel iii., he should consider that such an idea was proper to be entertained ”
