1 Samuel
Chapter Two
1 And Hannah prayed, and
said: My heart exulteth in Jehovah; My horn is exalted in Jehovah; My mouth
is enlarged over mine enemies; Because I rejoice in thy salvation.
2 There is none holy as Jehovah; For there is none besides thee, Neither is
there any rock like our God.
3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth;
For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
4 The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with
strength.
5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were
hungry have ceased to hunger: Yea, the barren hath borne seven; And she that
hath many children languisheth.
6 Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth
up.
7 Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill,
To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars
of the earth are Jehovah's, And he hath set the world upon them.
9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence
in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
10 They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to pieces; Against them will
he thunder in heaven: Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth; And he will
give strength unto his king, And exalt the horn of his anointed.
11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah
before Eli the priest.
12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah.
13 And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered
sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook
of three teeth in his hand;
14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the
flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh unto
all the Israelites that came thither.
15 Yea, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the
man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have
boiled flesh of thee, but raw.
16 And if the man said unto him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then
take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would say, Nay, but thou shalt give
it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
17 And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah; for the men despised
the offering of Jehovah.
18 But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen
ephod.
19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year
to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of
this woman for the petition which was asked of Jehovah. And they went unto their
own home.
21 And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bare three sons and two
daughters. And the child Samuel grew before Jehovah.
22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel,
and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent
of meeting.
23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings
from all this people.
24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people
to transgress.
25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against
Jehovah, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto
the voice of their father, because Jehovah was minded to slay them.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Jehovah, and
also with men.
27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah,
Did I reveal myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in
bondage to Pharaoh's house?
28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to
go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did
I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel
made by fire?
29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded
in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with
the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
30 Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house,
and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah
saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that
despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy
father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
32 And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth
which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house
for ever.
33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be
to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart; and all the increase of thy
house shall die in the flower of their age.
34 And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons,
on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that
which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and
he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house shall
come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall
say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a
morsel of bread.
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