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width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/1_samuel/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Hannah Exalts the Lord in Prayer</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hannah prayed,</p><p class="poetry2">“My heart rejoices in the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>;</p><p class="poetry2">my horn is exalted high because of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p><p class="poetry2">I loudly denounce my enemies,</p><p class="poetry2">for I am happy that you delivered me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>No one is holy like the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>!</p><p class="poetry2">There is no one other than you!</p><p class="poetry2">There is no rock like our God!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly,</p><p class="poetry2">letting proud talk come out of your mouth!</p><p class="poetry2">For the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> is a God who knows;</p><p class="poetry2">he evaluates what people do.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The bows of warriors are shattered,</p><p class="poetry2">but those who stumble find their strength reinforced.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,</p><p class="poetry2">but the hungry no longer lack.</p><p class="poetry2">Even the barren woman gives birth to seven,</p><p class="poetry2">but the one with many children withers away.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> both kills and gives life;</p><p class="poetry2">he brings down to the grave and raises up.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> impoverishes and makes wealthy;</p><p class="poetry2">he humbles and he exalts.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He lifts the weak from the dust;</p><p class="poetry2">he raises the poor from the ash heap</p><p class="poetry2">to seat them with princes</p><p class="poetry2">and to bestow on them an honored position.</p><p class="poetry2">The foundations of the earth belong to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>,</p><p class="poetry2">and he has placed the world on them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He watches over his holy ones,</p><p class="poetry2">but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,</p><p class="poetry2">for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> shatters his adversaries;</p><p class="poetry2">he thunders against them from the heavens.</p><p class="poetry2">The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> executes judgment to the ends of the earth.</p><p class="poetry2">He will strengthen his king</p><p class="poetry2">and exalt the power of his anointed one.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> under the supervision of Eli the priest.</p> <p class="title">Eli’s Sons Misuse Their Sacred Office</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not recognize the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s authority. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites when they came there to Shiloh.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, “Hand over some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t take boiled meat from you, but only raw.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If the individual said to him, “First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say, “No! Hand it over right now! If you don’t, I will take it forcibly!”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The sin of these young men was very great in the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s sight, for they treated the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s offering with contempt.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now Samuel was ministering before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying, “May the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> raise up for you descendants from this woman to replace the one that she dedicated to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.” Then they would go to their home. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s sanctuary.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to have sex with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s people is not good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father, for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had decided to kill them.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and with people.</p> <p class="title">The Lord Judges the House of Eli</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says: ‘Did I not plainly reveal myself to your ancestor’s house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I chose your ancestor from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed! <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house! <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and will cause you grief. All of those born to your family will die in the prime of life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die! <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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