The First Book of Samuel (WEB)
2:1 Hannah prayed, and said:
My heart exults in Yahweh;
My horn is exalted in Yahweh;
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies;
Because I rejoice in your salvation.
2:2There is none holy as Yahweh;
For there is none besides you,
Neither is there any rock like our God.
2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly;
Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For Yahweh is a God of knowledge,
By him actions are weighed.
2:4The bows of the mighty men are broken;
Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
2:5Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread;
Those who were hungry have ceased to hunger:
Yes, the barren has borne seven;
She who has many children languishes.
2:6Yahweh kills, and makes alive:
He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
2:7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich:
He brings low, he also lifts up.
2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust,
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill,
To make them sit with princes,
Inherit the throne of glory:
For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's,
He has set the world on them.
2:9He 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.
2:10Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces;
Against them will he thunder in the sky:
Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth;
He will give strength to his king,
Exalt the horn of his anointed.
2:11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
2:12Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh. 2:13The 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; 2:14and 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
to all the Israelites who came there. 2:15Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh
of you, but raw. 2:16If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much
as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it
by force. 2:17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the
offering of Yahweh. 2:18But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen
ephod. 2:19Moreover 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. 2:20Eli blessed Elkanah and his
wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.
They went to their own home. 2:21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons
and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh. 2:22Now Eli was very old; and he heard
all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of
the tent of meeting. 2:23He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings
from all this people. 2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's
people to disobey. 2:25If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against
Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father,
because Yahweh was minded to kill them. 2:26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor
both with Yahweh, and also with men. 2:27There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus
says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage
to Pharaoh's house? 2:28and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up
to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your
father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? 2:29Why kick you at my sacrifice and
at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to
make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people? 2:30Therefore Yahweh,
the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk
before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor,
and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. 2:31Behold, the days come, that I will cut off
your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.
2:32You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and
there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 2:33The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off
from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your
house shall die in the flower of their age. 2:34This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your
two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them. 2:35I 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 my anointed forever. 2:36It shall happen, that everyone
who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of
bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
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