1 Samuel 2 - Israeli Authorized Version Israeli Authorized Version
1 Samuel 2

¹ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in YY , mine shofar is exalted in YY : my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

² There is none holy as YY : for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our Elohim.

³ Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for YY is an Elohim 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 YY killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

⁷ YY 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 YY 's, and he hath set the world upon them.

⁹ He will keep the feet of his holy ones, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

¹⁰ The adversaries of YY shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: YY shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the shofar of his anointed.

¹¹ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto YY before Eli the kohen.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were sons of Bliyaal; they knew not YY .

¹³ And the kohen's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the kohen'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 kohen took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Yisraelites that came thither.

¹⁵ Also before they burnt the fat, the kohen's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the kohen; 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 YY : for men abhorred the offering of YY .

¹⁸ But Shmuel ministered before YY , 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, YY give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to YY . And they went unto their own home.

²¹ And YY visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Shmuel grew before YY .

²² Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Yisrael; 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 YY 's people to transgress.

²⁵ If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against YY , who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because YY would slay them.

²⁶ And the child Shmuel grew on, and was in favour both with YY , and also with men.

²⁷ And there came a man of Elohim unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith YY , 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 Yisrael to be my kohen, 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 Yisrael?

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 Yisrael my people?

³⁰ Wherefore YY Elohim of Yisrael saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now YY 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 Elohim shall give Yisrael: 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 Pinchas; in one day they shall die both of them.

³⁵ And I will raise me up a faithful kohen, 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 kohanim' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.