June
5
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Samuel 3, 4
1Sa
3:1 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of
Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
1Sa
3:2 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place
(now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
1Sa
3:3 and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid
down to sleep,
in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
1Sa
3:4 that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
1Sa
3:5 He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said,
I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
1Sa
3:6 Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli,
and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call,
my son; lie down again.
1Sa
3:7 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of
Yahweh yet revealed to him.
1Sa
3:8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that
Yahweh had called the child.
1Sa
3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if
he calls you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant
hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1Sa
3:10 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel,
Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
1Sa
3:11 Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at
which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
1Sa
3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken
concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
1Sa
3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for
the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on
themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
1Sa
3:14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity
of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering
forever.
1Sa
3:15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house
of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
1Sa
3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here
am I.
1Sa
3:17 He said, "What is the thing that Yahweh
has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you,
and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he
spoke to you."
1Sa
3:18 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said,
It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
1Sa
3:19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his
words fall to the ground.
1Sa
3:20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
1Sa
3:21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to
Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
1Sa
4:1 The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and
the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
1Sa
4:2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when
they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and
they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1Sa
4:3 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel
said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us
get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it
may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
1Sa
4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above
the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1Sa
4:5 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all
Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
1Sa
4:6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
1Sa
4:7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the
camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing
heretofore.
1Sa
4:8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all manner of
plagues in the wilderness.
1Sa
4:9 Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not
be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen
yourselves like men, and fight!
1Sa
4:10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled
every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for
there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1Sa
4:11 The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.
1Sa
4:12 There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh
the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
1Sa
4:13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road
watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man
came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
1Sa
4:14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the
noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
1Sa
4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so
that he could not see.
1Sa
4:16 The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I
fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
1Sa
4:17 He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the
people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and
the ark of God is taken.
1Sa
4:18 It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli
fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck
broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged
Israel forty years.
1Sa
4:19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be
delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken,
and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
1Sa
4:20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to
her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she
didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
1Sa
4:21 She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from
Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her
father-in-law and her husband.
1Sa
4:22 She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God
is taken.