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3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Hannah's Prayer</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.1" class="v9_2_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.2.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Hannah prayed:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_1">“The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has filled my heart with joy;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_1">how happy I am because of what he has done!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_1">I laugh at my enemies;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_1">how joyful I am because God has helped me!</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.2" class="v9_2_2">2</span>“No one is holy like the <span class="nd">Lord</span>;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_2">there is none like him,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_2">no protector like our God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.3" class="v9_2_3">3</span>Stop your loud boasting;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_3">silence your proud words.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_3">For the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is a God who knows,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_3">and he judges all that people do.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.4" class="v9_2_4">4</span>The bows of strong soldiers are broken,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_4">but the weak grow strong.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.5" class="v9_2_5">5</span>The people who once were well fed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_5">now hire themselves out to get food,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_5">but the hungry are hungry no more.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_5">The childless wife has borne seven children,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_5">but the mother of many is left with none.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.6" class="v9_2_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.2.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> kills and restores to life;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_6">he sends people to the world of the dead</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_6">and brings them back again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.7" class="v9_2_7">7</span>He makes some people poor and others rich;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_7">he humbles some and makes others great.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.8" class="v9_2_8">8</span>He lifts the poor from the dust</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_8">and raises the needy from their misery.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_8">He makes them companions of princes</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_8">and puts them in places of honor.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_8">The foundations of the earth belong to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_8">on them he has built the world.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.9" class="v9_2_9">9</span>“He protects the lives of his faithful people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_9">but the wicked disappear in darkness;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_9">a man does not triumph by his own strength.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.10" class="v9_2_10">10</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s enemies will be destroyed;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_10">he will thunder against them from heaven.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v9_2_10">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will judge the whole world;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_10">he will give power to his king,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v9_2_10">he will make his chosen king victorious.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.11" class="v9_2_11">11</span>Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah, but the boy Samuel stayed in Shiloh and served the <span class="nd">Lord</span> under the priest Eli.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Sons of Eli</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.12" class="v9_2_12">12</span>The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span><span class="v9_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.13" class="v9_2_13">13</span>or to the regulations concerning what the priests could demand from the people. Instead, when someone was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork. While the meat was still cooking, </span><span class="v9_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.14" class="v9_2_14">14</span>he would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever the fork brought out belonged to the priest. All the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices were treated like this. </span><span class="v9_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.15" class="v9_2_15">15</span>In addition, even before the fat was taken off and burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the one offering the sacrifice, “Give me some meat for the priest to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.16" class="v9_2_16">16</span>If the person answered, “Let us do what is right and burn the fat first; then take what you want,” the priest's servant would say, “No! Give it to me now! If you don't, I will have to take it by force!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.17" class="v9_2_17">17</span>This sin of the sons of Eli was extremely serious in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s sight, because they treated the offerings to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> with such disrespect.</span></p><h3 class="s">Samuel at Shiloh</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.18" class="v9_2_18">18</span>In the meantime the boy Samuel continued to serve the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, wearing a sacred linen apron. </span><span class="v9_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.19" class="v9_2_19">19</span>Each year his mother would make a little robe and take it to him when she accompanied her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. </span><span class="v9_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.20" class="v9_2_20">20</span>Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say to Elkanah, “May the <span class="nd">Lord</span> give you other children by this woman to take the place of the one you dedicated to him.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_20">After that they would go back home.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.21" class="v9_2_21">21</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> did bless Hannah, and she had three more sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up in the service of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h3 class="s">Eli and His Sons</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.22" class="v9_2_22">22</span>Eli was now very old. He kept hearing about everything his sons were doing to the Israelites and that they were even sleeping with the women who worked at the entrance to the Tent of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s presence. </span><span class="v9_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.23" class="v9_2_23">23</span>So he said to them, “Why are you doing these things? Everybody tells me about the evil you are doing. </span><span class="v9_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.24" class="v9_2_24">24</span>Stop it, my sons! This is an awful thing the people of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> are talking about! </span><span class="v9_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.25" class="v9_2_25">25</span>If anyone sins against someone else, God can defend the one who is wrong; but who can defend someone who sins against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_25">But they would not listen to their father, for the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had decided to kill them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_26"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.26" class="v9_2_26">26</span><a href="#1Sam.2.26!x.1" id="link_1Sam.2.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The boy Samuel continued to grow and to gain favor both with the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and with people.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Prophecy against Eli's Family</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_2_27"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.27" class="v9_2_27">27</span>A prophet came to Eli with this message from the <span class="nd">Lord</span>: “When your ancestor Aaron and his family were slaves of the king of Egypt, I revealed myself to Aaron. </span><span class="v9_2_28"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.28" class="v9_2_28">28</span><a href="#1Sam.2.28!x.1" id="link_1Sam.2.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> From all the tribes of Israel I chose his family to be my priests, to serve at the altar, to burn the incense, and to wear the ephod<a href="#1Sam.2.28!f.2" id="link_1Sam.2.28!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to consult me. And I gave them the right to keep a share of the sacrifices burned on the altar. </span><span class="v9_2_29"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.29" class="v9_2_29">29</span>Why, then, do you look with greed<a href="#1Sam.2.29!f.1" id="link_1Sam.2.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> at the sacrifices and offerings which I require from my people? Why, Eli, do you honor your sons more than me by letting them fatten themselves on the best parts of all the sacrifices my people offer to me? </span><span class="v9_2_30"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.30" class="v9_2_30">30</span>I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me. </span><span class="v9_2_31"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.31" class="v9_2_31">31</span>Listen, the time is coming when I will kill all the young men in your family and your clan, so that no man in your family will live to be old. </span><span class="v9_2_32"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.32" class="v9_2_32">32</span>You will be troubled and look with envy<a href="#1Sam.2.32!f.1" id="link_1Sam.2.32!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> on all the blessings I will give to the other people of Israel, but no one in your family will ever again live to old age. </span><span class="v9_2_33"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.33" class="v9_2_33">33</span>Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive, and he will serve me as priest. But he<a href="#1Sam.2.33!f.1" id="link_1Sam.2.33!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will become blind and lose all hope, and all your other descendants will die a violent death. </span><span class="v9_2_34"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.34" class="v9_2_34">34</span><a href="#1Sam.2.34!x.1" id="link_1Sam.2.34!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When your two sons Hophni and Phinehas both die on the same day, this will show you that everything I have said will come true. </span><span class="v9_2_35"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.35" class="v9_2_35">35</span>I will choose a priest who will be faithful to me and do everything I want him to. I will give him descendants, who will always serve in the presence of my chosen king. </span><span class="v9_2_36"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.2.36" class="v9_2_36">36</span>Any of your descendants who survive will have to go to that priest and ask him for money and food, and beg to be allowed to help the priests, in order to have something to eat.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.28: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Ephod: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Word List.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.29: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">look with greed; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.32: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">look with envy; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.33: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">he; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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