June
4
1
Samuel 1, 2
1Sa
1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill
country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the
son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
1Sa
1:2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no
children.
1Sa
1:3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship
and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
1Sa
1:4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
1Sa
1:5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but
Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1Sa
1:6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh
had shut up her womb.
1Sa
1:7 as he
did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she
provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
1Sa
1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you weep? and
why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to
you than ten sons?
1Sa
1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they
had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost
of the temple of Yahweh.
1Sa
1:10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept
sore.
1Sa
1:11 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed
look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not
forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I
will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no
razor come on his head.
1Sa
1:12 It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli
marked her mouth.
1Sa
1:13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but
her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1Sa
1:14 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your
wine from you.
1Sa
1:15 Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful
spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out
my soul before Yahweh.
1Sa
1:16 Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the
abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
1Sa
1:17 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant
your petition that you have asked of him.
1Sa
1:18 She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the
woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any
more.
1Sa
1:19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh,
and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew
Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
1Sa
1:20 It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah
conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying,
Because I have asked him of Yahweh.
1Sa
1:21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh
the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1Sa
1:22 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, I
will not go up until the child be
weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh,
and there abide forever.
1Sa
1:23 Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to you;
wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So
the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
1Sa
1:24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three
bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him
to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1Sa
1:25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
1Sa
1:26 She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the
woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
1Sa
1:27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition
which I asked of him:
1Sa
1:28 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he
lives he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there.
1Sa
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.
1Sa
2:2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides
you, nor is there any rock like our God.
1Sa
2:3 Talk 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.
1Sa
2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are
girded with strength.
1Sa
2:5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those
who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children
languishes.
1Sa
2:6 Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and
brings up.
1Sa
2:7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts
up.
1Sa
2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts 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 Yahweh's. He has
set the world on them.
1Sa
2:9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be
put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
1Sa
2:10 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will
thunder against them in the sky. Yahweh will judge the ends of the
earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his
anointed.
1Sa
2:11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to
Yahweh before Eli the priest.
1Sa
2:12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
1Sa
2:13 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 fork of three teeth in his hand;
1Sa
2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;
all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did
in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
1Sa
2:15 Yes, 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.
1Sa
2:16 If 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 to me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
1Sa
2:17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the
men despised the offering of Yahweh.
1Sa
2:18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with
a linen ephod.
1Sa
2:19 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.
1Sa
2:20 Eli 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.
1Sa
2:21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons
and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
1Sa
2:22 Now 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.
1Sa
2:23 He said to them, Why do you do such things? for I hear of your
evil dealings from all this people.
1Sa
2:24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make
Yahweh's people disobey.
1Sa
2:25 If 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.
1Sa
2:26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with
Yahweh, and also with men.
1Sa
2:27 There 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?
1Sa
2:28 and 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?
1Sa
2:29 Why do you kick 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?
1Sa
2:30 Therefore 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.
1Sa
2:31 Behold, 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.
1Sa
2:32 You 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.
1Sa
2:33 The 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.
1Sa
2:34 This 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.
1Sa
2:35 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 my anointed forever.
1Sa
2:36 It 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.