1Sam 2
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My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged
over my enemies, I have rejoiced in your salvation.
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For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God; there
is none holy besides you.
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Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your
mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs.
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The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength.
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They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land;
for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.
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The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
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The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.
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He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat
him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory:
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granting his petition to him whom prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous,
for by strength cannot man prevail.
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The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord is holy. Let not the wise man boast in
his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man
boast in his wealth; but let him whom boasts boast in this, to understand and know
the Lord, Perhaps «and that the Lord executes,’ etc.; Compare Jer 9 :24 and to execute judgement and justice in the midst
of the earth. The Lord has gone
up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth,
and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she
left him there before the Lord,
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and departed to Armathaim: and the child ministered in the presence of the Lord before
Heli the priest.
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And the sons of Heli the priest were evil sons, not knowing the Lord.
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And the priest’s claim from every one of the people that sacrificed was this: the
servant of the priest came when the flesh was in seething, and a flesh-hook of three
teeth was in his hand.
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And he struck it into the great caldron, or into the brazen vessel, or into the pot,
and whatever came up with the flesh-hook, the priest took for himself: so they did
to all Israel that came to sacrifice to the Lord in Selom.
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And before the fat was burnt for a sweet savour, the servant of the priest would come,
and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will
by no means take of you sodden flesh out of the caldron.
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And if the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and
take for yourself of all things which your soul desires: then he would say, Nay, for
you shall give it me now; and if not I will take it by force.
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So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they set at nothing
the offering of the Lord.
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And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girt with a linen ephod.
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And his mother made him a little doublet, and brought it to him from Lit. days to days year to year, in her going up in company
with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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And Heli blessed Helcana and his wife, saying The Lord recompense to you seed of this
woman, in return for the loan which you have lent to the Lord: and the man returned
to his place.
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And the Lord visited Anna, and she bore yet three sons, and two daughters. And the
child Samuel grew before the Lord.
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And Heli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.
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And he said to them, Why do you according to this thing, which I hear from the mouth
of all the people of the Lord?
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Nay my sons, for the report which I hear is not good; do not so, for the Or, the reports which I hear of the people not serving,
etc.; Compare 1 Ch 13:4 reports which I hear are not good, so that the people do not serve God.
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If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord;
but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not
to the voice of their father, because the Lord would by all means destroy them.
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And the child Samuel advanced, and Gr. was good was in favour with God and with men.
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And a man of God came to Heli, and said, Thus says the Lord, I plainly revealed myself
to the house of your father, when they were servants in Egypt to the house of Pharao.
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And I chose the house of your father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to
me in the priest’s office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear
an ephod. And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings by fire of the
children of Israel for food.
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And wherefore have you looked upon my incense-offering and my meat-offering with a
shameless eye, and have honoured your sons above me, so that they should bless themselves
with the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel before me?
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Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, I said, Your house and the house of your
father shall pass before me for ever: but now the Lord says, That be far from me;
for I will only honour them that honour me, and he who sets me at nothing shall be
despised.
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Behold, the days come when I will destroy your seed and the seed of your father’s
house.
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And you shall not have an old man in my house for ever.
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And if I do not destroy a man of yours from my altar, it shall be that his eyes may
fail and his soul may perish; and every one that remains in your house shall fall
by the sword of men.
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And this which shall come upon your two sons Ophni and Phinees shall be a sign to
you; in one day they shall both die.
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And I will raise up to myself a faithful priest, who shall do all that is in my heart
and in my soul; and I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before my Christ
for ever.
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And it shall come to pass that he who survives in your house, shall come to do obeisance
before him for a little piece of silver, Alex. +’and for a piece of bread’ saying, Gr. cast Put me into one of your priest’s
offices to eat bread.