ULT 1SA Chapter 2

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2 And Hannah prayed and said,

“My heart exults in Yahweh.

My horn is exalted in Yahweh.

My mouth is wide against my enemies.

For I rejoice in your salvation.

2 There is no one holy like Yahweh.

Indeed, there is no one besides you.

And there is no rock like our God.

3 Do not speak so much very proudly!

Let arrogance go out from your mouth.

For Yahweh is a God of knowledge.

And by him actions are weighed.

4 Mighty men are shattered of bow.

But those who stumble gird on strength.

5 The satisified ones hired themselves out for bread,

but the hungry ones cease.

Even the barren woman bears seven,

but the woman of many sons languishes.

6 Yahweh puts to death and brings to life,

brings down to Sheol and brings up.

7 Yahweh makes poor and makes rich,

makes low, but also lifts up.

8 Raising the lowly from the dust,

he lifts up the needy from the trash heap

to make sit with nobles

and causes them to inherit the seat of honor.

For the pillars of the earth are for Yahweh

and he has set the world on them.

9 He will keep the feet of his loyal ones,

but the wicked ones will be silenced in the darkness.

For not by strength does a man prevail.

10 By Yahweh the ones who oppose him will be shattered.

He makes thunder against him in the heavens.

Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.

And he will give strength to his king

and lift up the horn of his anointed one.”

11 And Elkanah went to the Ramah, to his house. And the boy was serving Yahweh with the face of Eli the priest.

12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of worthlessness. They did not know Yahweh. 13 And the custom of the priests with the people was: when any man was sacrificing a sacrifice, then the servant of the priest would come with a fork of three prongs in his hand as soon as the meat was boiling. 14 And he would stick it into the pan, or into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take with him. Thus they did to all Israel, the ones who came there at Shiloh. 15 Also, before they burned the fat, the servant of the priest would come, and he would say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat to roast for the priest. And he will not take boiled meat from you, but only living.” 16 And the man would say to him, “Let them burn the fat completely as the day, then take for yourself what your self desires,” And he would say, “No, rather now you will give it; and if not, I will take it by force.” 17 And the sin of the young men was very great with the face of Yahweh. For the men spurned the offering of Yahweh.

18 And Samuel was serving with the face of Yahweh, a boy girded with an ephod of linen. 19 And his mother would make a small robe for him and she would bring it to him from days to days, when she came up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the days. 20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and would say, “May Yahweh set seed from this woman for you in place of the request that he requested to Yahweh.” And they would go to his place. 21 Because Yahweh visited Hannah, she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew with Yahweh.

22 Now Eli was very old. And he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they were lying with the women who were serving at the opening of the Tent of Meeting. 23 And he said to them, “Why do you do like these things that I am hearing, your evil things, from with all these people? 24 No, my sons! For the report is not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh passing on. 25 If a man sins against a man, then God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” And they would not listen to the voice of their father, for Yahweh desired to put them to death. 26 Now the boy Samuel was going and growing, and good, both with Yahweh and also with men.

27 And a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Did I clearly reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt for the house of Pharaoh? 28 And I chose him from all the tribes of Israel to be for me for a priest, to bring up on my altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before my face. And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire of the sons of Israel. 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering that I commanded for the Dwelling, and honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves from the first of every offering of Israel, of my people?’ 30 Therefore, this is the declaration of Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘I indeed said your house and the house of your father would walk about before my face until eternity.’ But now this is the declaration of Yahweh: ‘Far be it for me! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be slighted. 31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your arm and the arm of the house of your father from there being an old man in your house. 32 And you will see the distress of the Dwelling, in all that he will do good with Israel. And there will not be an old man in your house all the days. 33 But I will not cut off a man from near my altar for you, to cause your eyes to fail and to cause your spirit to grieve. But all the increase of your house will die as men. 34 And this is the sign for you that will come to the two of your sons, to Hophni and Phinehas: in one day the two of them will die. 35 And I will raise up for myself a priest who is faithful. He will do just as is in my heart and in my self. And I will build for him a house that is faithful; and he will walk before the face of my anointed one all the days. 36 And it will happen that all the ones who remain in your house will come to bow down to him for a payment of silver and a round loaf of bread. And he will say, “Please assign me to one of the priestly positions to eat a bit of bread.” ’ ”

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