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1 Samuel 2

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

2:1

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

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2:2

There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

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2:3

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

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2:4

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

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2:5

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

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2:6

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

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2:7

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

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2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

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2:9

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

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2:10

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

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2:11

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

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2:12

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.

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2:13

And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

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2:14

And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

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2:15

Also 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 sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

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2:16

And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat , and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

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2:17

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

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2:18

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

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2:19

Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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2:20

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.

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2:21

And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.

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2:22

Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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2:23

And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for by all this people.

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2:24

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to .

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2:25

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

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2:26

And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.

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2:27

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?

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2:28

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

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2:29

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

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2:30

Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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2:31

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 thine house.

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2:32

And thou shalt see : and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

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2:33

And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

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2:34

And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

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2:35

And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

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2:36

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

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