[[1 Samuel 1|<< 1 Samuel 1]] | [[1 Samuel|1 Samuel]] | [[1 Samuel 3|1 Samuel 3 >>]] ### 1 Samuel 2 1 AND Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoices in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. ^1 2 _There_ _is_ none holy as the LORD: for _there_ _is_ none beside thee: neither _is_ _there_ any rock like our God. ^2 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let _not_ arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD _is_ a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. ^3 4 The bows of the mighty men _are_ broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. ^4 5 _They_ _that_ _were_ full have hired out themselves for bread; and _they_ _that_ _were_ hungry ceased: so that the barren has born seven; and she that has many children is waxed feeble. ^5 6 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up. ^6 7 The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up. ^7 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, _and_ lifts 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 has set the world upon them. ^8 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. ^9 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. ^10 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. ^11 12 ¶ Now the sons of Eli _were_ sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. ^12 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; ^13 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. ^14 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. ^15 16 And _if_ any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and _then_ take _as_ _much_ as thy soul desires; then he would answer him, _No;_ but thou shalt give _it_ _me_ now: and if not, I will take _it_ by force. ^16 17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. ^17 18 ¶ But Samuel ministered before the LORD, _being_ a child, girded with a linen ephod. ^18 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. ^19 20 ¶ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. ^20 21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD. ^21 22 ¶ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled _at_ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ^22 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. ^23 24 No, my sons; for _it_ _is_ no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD's people to transgress. ^24 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. ^25 26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD, and also with men. ^26 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? ^27 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? ^28 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded _in_ _my_ habitation; and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? ^29 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 honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. ^30 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. ^31 32 And thou shalt see an enemy _in_ _my_ habitation, in all _the_ _wealth_ which _God_ shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. ^32 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. ^33 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. ^34 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. ^35 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, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. ^36