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1 Samuel

1 And Han­nah prayed, and said, My heart re­joiceth in the LORD, mine horn is ex­alt­ed in the LORD: my mouth is en­larged over mine en­e­mies; be­cause I re­joice in thy sal­va­tion. 2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none be­side thee: nei­ther is there any rock like our God. 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. 4 The bows of the mighty men are bro­ken, and they that stum­bled are gird­ed with strength. 5 They that were full have hired out them­selves for bread; and they that were hun­gry ceased: so that the bar­ren hath born sev­en; and she that hath many chil­dren is waxed fee­ble. 6 The LORD kil­leth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth 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 hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in dark­ness; for by strength shall no man pre­vail. 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. 11 And Elka­nah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did min­is­ter unto the LORD be­fore Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Be­lial; they knew not the LORD. 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; 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. 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. 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 de­sireth; then he would an­swer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. 17 Where­fore the sin of the young men was very great be­fore the LORD: for men ab­horred the of­fer­ing of the LORD. 18 But Samuel min­is­tered be­fore the LORD, being a child, gird­ed with a linen ephod. 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. 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. 21 And the LORD vis­it­ed Han­nah, so that she con­ceived, and bare three sons and two daugh­ters. And the child Samuel grew be­fore the LORD. 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. 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deal­ings by all this peo­ple. 24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good re­port that I hear: ye make the LORD'S peo­ple to transgress. 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. 26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men. 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? 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? 29 Where­fore 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? 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 hon­our me I will hon­our, and they that de­spise me shall be light­ly es­teemed. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.