1 Samuel 2:1-25 ▼

1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart rejoices in YHWH; My horn is exalted in YHWH. My mouth is wide over my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

2 No one is holy like YHWH, for there is none besides You, and no rock like our God.

3 Do not multiply to speak so exceedingly proudly; the old saying goes out from your? mouth, for YHWH is a God of knowledge and by Him actions are weighed.

4 The bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

5 The satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even The barren woman has borne seven, and she who has many sons has languished.

6 YHWH kills and keeps alive; He brings down to Sheol and He raises up.

7 YHWH makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He exalts.

8 He raises the poor from the dust; from the ash heap He lifts the needy to set them among princes, and the throne of glory He bestows on them. For of YHWH are the pillars of the earth, and He has set upon them the world.

9 The feet of His holy ones He will guard, and the wicked in the darkness shall be silent; for not by strength shall man prevail.

10 YHWH—broken down are His adversaries; against them from the heavens He will thunder. YHWH will judge the ends of the earth, and He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn of His anointed.”

11 And Elkanah went to Ramath to his house, and the boy had been ministering to YHWH before Eli the priest.

12 And the sons of Eli were sons of worthlessness; they did not know YHWH.

13 And the custom of the priests with the people was when any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come at the boiling of the flesh, and with the fork of three teeth in his hand.

14 And he would thrust it into the pan, or the kettle, or the cauldron, or the pot. All that the fork brought up, the priest would take for himself. Thus they did to all Israel who came there to Shiloh.

15 Also before they burned the fat, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give flesh for roasting to the priest; and he will not take from you boiled flesh, but only raw.”

16 And the man said to him, “The fat must surely be burned first, and you may take to you as your soul desires,” and he would answer to him, “Surely now you must give it, and if not, I will take it by force.”

17 Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before YHWH, for they despised the offering of YHWH.

18 And Samuel ministered before YHWH, a boy girded with an ephod of linen.

19 And a small robe his mother would make for him and bring it to him year by year in her coming up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May YHWH give to you seed from this woman for the petition that she asked of YHWH,” and they would go to their own home.

21 And YHWH visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew up before YHWH.

22 And Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

23 And he said to them, “Why do you? do these things? For I hear of your? evil deeds from all these people.

24 No, my sons, for the report is not good that I hear spreading among the people of YHWH.

25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him, but if a man sins against YHWH, who will intercede for him?” And they did not listen to the voice of their father, because YHWH delighted to put them to death.