1Sam 2
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And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in YHWH; My horn is exalted in YHWH;
My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
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There is none holy as YHWH; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock
like our God.
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Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For YHWH
is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
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The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
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They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry
have ceased [to hunger]: Yea, the barren has borne seven; And she that has many children
languishes.
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YHWH kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
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YHWH makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
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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 YHWH`s, And he has set the world upon them.
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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.
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They that strive with YHWH shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder
in heaven: YHWH will judge the ends of the earth; And he will give strength to his
king, And exalt the horn of his anointed.
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And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister to YHWH before
Eli the priest.
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Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not YHWH.
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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;
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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 to all the Israelites
that came there.
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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 you, but raw.
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And 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, Nay, but you shall give it me now: and
if not, I will take it by force.
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And the sin of the young men was very great before YHWH; for the men despised the
offering of YHWH.
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But Samuel ministered before YHWH, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
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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.
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And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, YHWH give you seed of this woman for
the petition which was asked of YHWH. And they went to their own home.
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And YHWH visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters.
And the child Samuel grew before YHWH.
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Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that
they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.
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And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from
all this people.
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Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make YHWH`s people to transgress.
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If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against YHWH,
who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not to the voice of their
father, because YHWH was minded to slay them.
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And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with YHWH, and also with
men.
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And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says YHWH, Did I reveal
myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh`s
house?
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and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to
mine 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?
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Wherefore kick you at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in
[my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest
of all the offerings of Israel my people?
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Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house
of your father, should walk before me for ever: but now YHWH says, Be it far from
me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly
esteemed.
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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.
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And you shall behold 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 for ever.
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And the man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from mine 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.
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And this shall be the sign to you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni and
Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
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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.
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And it shall come to pass, that every one that 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, Put me,
I pray you, into one of the priests` offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.