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geneva@1Samuel:2:1 @ And Hannah (note:)After she had obtained a son by prayer she gave thanks.(:note) prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine I have recovered strength and glory by the benefit of the Lord. horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is I can answer them that criticize my barrenness. enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

geneva@1Samuel:2:2 @ There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, & there is no god like our God.

geneva@1Samuel:2:3 @ Talk (note:)In that you condemn my barrenness, you show your pride against God.(:note) 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.

geneva@1Samuel:2:4 @ The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues with strength.

geneva@1Samuel:2:5 @ [They that were] full have hired out themselves for (note:)They sell their labours for necessary food.(:note) bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

geneva@1Samuel:2:6 @ The Lord killeth and maketh aliue: bringeth downe to the graue and raiseth vp.

geneva@1Samuel:2:7 @ The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.

geneva@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among (note:)He prefers to honour, and does according to his own will, though man's judgment is contrary.(:note) princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the Therefore he may dispose all things according to his will. LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

geneva@1Samuel:2:9 @ Hee will keepe the feete of his Saintes, and the wicked shall keepe silence in darkenes: for in his owne might shall no man be strong.

geneva@1Samuel:2:10 @ 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 (note:)She grounded her prayer on Jesus Christ who was to come.(:note) king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

geneva@1Samuel:2:11 @ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the (note:)In all that Eli commanded him.(:note) LORD before Eli the priest.

geneva@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they (note:)That is, they neglected his ordinance.(:note) knew not the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:2:13 @ For the Priestes custome towarde the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priestes boy came, while the flesh was seething, and a fleshhooke with three teeth, in his hand,

geneva@1Samuel:2:14 @ And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; (note:)Transgressing the order appointed in the Law, (Lev_7:31), for their bellies sake.(:note) all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

geneva@1Samuel:2:15 @ Also before they burnt the (note:)Which was commanded first to have been offered to God.(:note) 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.

geneva@1Samuel:2:16 @ And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul (note:)Not passing for their own profit, so that God might be served rightly.(:note) desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force.

geneva@1Samuel:2:17 @ Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men (note:)Seeing the horrible abuse of it.(:note) abhorred the offering of the LORD.

geneva@1Samuel:2:18 @ Now Samuel being a yong childe ministred before the Lord, girded with a linen Ephod.

geneva@1Samuel:2:19 @ And his mother made him a litle coat, and brought it to him from yeere to yeere, when she came vp with her husband, to offer the yerely sacrifice.

geneva@1Samuel:2:20 @ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord giue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord: and they departed vnto their place.

geneva@1Samuel:2:21 @ And the Lorde visited Hannah, so that she conceiued, & bare three sonnes, & two daughters; the childe Samuel grewe before the Lord.

geneva@1Samuel:2:22 @ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that (note:)Which was (as the Hebrews write) after their travail, when they came to be purified, read (Exo_38:8; Lev_12:6).(:note) assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

geneva@1Samuel:2:23 @ And hee saide vnto them, Why doe ye such things? For of all this people I heare euill reportes of you.

geneva@1Samuel:2:24 @ Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to (note:)Because they contemn their duty to God, (1Sa_2:17).(:note) transgress.

geneva@1Samuel:2:25 @ 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 (note:)So that to obey good admonition is God's mercy, and to disobey them is his just judgment for sin.(:note) would slay them.

geneva@1Samuel:2:26 @ (Nowe the childe Samuel profited and grewe, and was in fauour both with the Lord and also with men)

geneva@1Samuel:2:27 @ 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 (note:)That is, Aaron.(:note) father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

geneva@1Samuel:2:28 @ And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my Priest, to offer vpon mine altar, and to burne incense, and to weare an Ephod before me, and I gaue vnto the house of thy father all the offrings made by fire of the children of Israel.

geneva@1Samuel:2:29 @ Wherefore (note:)Why have you contemned my sacrifices, and as it were trod them under foot?(:note) kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

geneva@1Samuel:2:30 @ 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, (note:)God's promises are only effective to those he gives faith to fear and obey him.(:note) Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

geneva@1Samuel:2:31 @ Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine (note:)Thy power and authority.(:note) arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

geneva@1Samuel:2:32 @ And thou (note:)Your posterity will see the glory of the chief priest given to another, whom they will envy, (1Ki_2:27).(:note) 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.

geneva@1Samuel:2:33 @ Neuerthelesse, I will not destroy euery one of thine fro mine altar, to make thine eyes to faile, and to make thine heart sorowfull: and all ye multitude of thine house shall die when they be men.

geneva@1Samuel:2:34 @ And this shalbe a signe vnto thee, that shal come vpon thy two sonnes Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both.

geneva@1Samuel:2:35 @ And I will raise me up a (note:)Meaning Zadok, who succeeded Abiathar, and was the figure of Christ.(:note) 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.

geneva@1Samuel:2:36 @ And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine house shall come [and] (note:)That is, will be inferior to him.(:note) 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.

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