1Samuel:2

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* And Hannah prayed , and said , My heart exults in LORD . My horn is exalted in LORD . My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation . * There is none holy as LORD , for there is none besides thee , neither is there any rock like our God . * Talk no more so very proudly . Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth , for LORD is a God of knowledge , and by him actions are weighed . * The bows of the mighty men are broken , and those who stumbled are girded with strength . * Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread , and those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger ]. Yea , the barren has borne seven , and she who has many sons languishes . * LORD kills , and makes alive . He brings down to Sheol , and brings up . * LORD makes poor , and makes rich . He brings low , he also lifts up . * He raises up the poor out of the dust , he lifts up the needy from the dunghill , to make them sit with rulers , and inherit the throne of glory . For the pillars of the earth are LORD 's , and he has set the world upon them . * He will keep the feet of his holy ones , but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness , for by strength no man shall prevail . * Those who strive with LORD shall be broken to pieces . He will thunder against them in heaven . LORD will judge the ends of the earth , and he will give strength to his king , and exalt the horn of his anointed . * And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house , and the child ministered to LORD before Eli the priest . * Now the sons of Eli were base men ; they knew not LORD . * 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 , * and he struck it into the pan , or kettle , or caldron , or pot . All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took with it . So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there . * And before they burned the fat , the priest 's servant came , and said to the man who sacrificed , Give flesh to roast for the priest , for he will not have boiled flesh from thee , but raw . * And if the man said to him , They will surely burn the fat first , and then take as much as thy soul desires , then he would say , No , but thou shall give it to me now , and if not , I will take it by force . * And the sin of the young men was very great before LORD , for the men despised the offering of LORD . * But Samuel ministered before LORD , being a child , girded with a linen ephod . * 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 . * And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife , and said , LORD give thee seed by this woman for the petition which was asked of LORD . And they went to their own home . * And LORD visited Hannah , and she conceived , and bore three sons and two daughters . And the child Samuel grew before LORD . * Now Eli was very old . And he heard all that his sons did to all Israel , and how that they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tent of meeting . * And he said to them , Why do ye such things ? For I hear of your evil dealings from all this people . * No , my sons , for it is no good report that I hear . Ye make LORD 's people to transgress . * If one man sins against another , God shall judge him , but if a man sins against LORD , who shall entreat for him ? Notwithstanding , they did not hearken to the voice of their father , because LORD intended to kill them . * And the child Samuel grew on , and increased in favor both with LORD , and also with men . * And there came a man of God to Eli , and said to him , Thus says LORD , Did I reveal myself to the house of thy father when they were in Egypt [in bondage ] to Pharaoh 's house ? * And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest , to go up to my altar , to burn incense , to wear an ephod before me ? And did I give to the house of thy father all the offerings of the sons of Israel made by fire * Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering , which I have commanded in [my ] habitation , and honor thy sons above me , to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people ? * Therefore LORD , the God of Israel , says , I said indeed that thy house , and the house of thy father , should walk before me forever , but now LORD says , Be it far from me , for those who honor me I will honor , and those who despise me * 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 thy house . * And thou shall see an enemy [in my ] habitation , in all that I shall give Israel , and there shall not be an old man in thy house forever . * And the man of thine , [whom ] I shall not cut off from my altar , [shall be ] to consume thine eyes , and to grieve thy heart . And all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age . * And this shall be the sign to thee , that shall come upon thy two sons , on Hophni and Phinehas : In one day they shall die , both of them . * And I will raise up for me a faithful priest who shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind . And I will build for him a sure house , and he shall walk before my anointed forever . * And it shall come to pass , that everyone who is left in thy 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 thee , into one of the priests ' offices that I may eat a morse

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