ULT 1SA Chapter 2

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2 And Hannah prayed and said,

“My heart rejoices in Yahweh,

my horn is high in Yahweh.

My mouth is wide against my enemies,

for I rejoice in your salvation.

2 None is holy like Yahweh.

Indeed, there is none besides you,

and there is no rock like our God.

3 May you not multiply, may you not speak, haughty, haughty!

Let the arrogant go out from your mouth.

For Yahweh is a God of knowledge,

and by him actions are weighed.

4 The bow of the mighty are broken,

but the stumbling ones gird on strength.

5 The satisfied hire themselves out for bread,

but the hungry cease.

Even the barren bears seven,

but the plenteous of sons languishes.

6 Yahweh makes die and makes alive,

causing to go down to Sheol and causing to come up.

7 Yahweh is making poor and making rich,

bringing down yet bringing up.

8 Raising the poor from the dust,

he lifts up the needy from the trash heap

to make them sit with nobles,

and he makes them inherit a seat of honor.

For the pillars of the earth are to Yahweh,

and he has set the world on them.

9 He will keep the feet of his faithful ones,

but the wicked will be silenced in darkness.

For not by strength does a man prevail.

10 By Yahweh, the ones opposing him will be shattered.

He will make 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 Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. And the boy was serving Yahweh at the face of Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of wickedness. They did not know Yahweh. 13 Now the custom of the priests with the people was, when any man was sacrificing a sacrifice, that the servant of the priest would come at the boiling of the meat, and a fork with three prongs was in his hand, 14 and he would thrust 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 of Israel, to the ones coming there at Shiloh. 15 Also, before they burned the fat, the servant of the priest would come, and he would say to the man sacrificing, “Give meat to the priest to roast, and he will not take boiled meat from you, but surely raw.” 16 And the man would say to him, “Burning, let them burn the fat as the day, then take for yourself what your soul desires.” But he would say, “No, but you shall give now, and if not, I will take by force.” 17 So the sin of the young men was very great at the face of Yahweh. For the men disdained the offering of Yahweh. 18 Now Samuel was serving at 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, in her coming 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 give seed to you from this woman in place of the request that one requested of Yahweh.” And they would go to his place. 21 For Yahweh visited Hannah, and 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 of Israel and that they were lying with the women serving at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 23 And he said to them, “Why do you do like these things, that I am hearing evil things of you from all of 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 intercede for him, but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for Yahweh desired to make them die. 26 But the boy Samuel was going and growing and was good both with Yahweh and also with men. 27 And a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Revealing myself, did I not reveal myself to the house of your father in their being in Egypt, to the house of Pharaoh? 28 And I chose him from all of the tribes of Israel for myself for a priest, to go up on my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod to my face. And I gave to the house of your father all of the gifts 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 the fattening of yourselves from the first of every offering of Israel, of my people? 30 ‘Therefore’—the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Israel—‘saying, I said your house and the house of your father would walk about to my face forever. But now’—the declaration of Yahweh—‘profane to me! For the ones honoring me, I will honor, but the ones disdaining me, they will despise. 31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your arm and the arm of the house of your father from the being of 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 an old man will not be in your house all of the days. 33 But I will not cut off a man to you from near my altar, to make your eyes fail and to make your soul grieve. And all of 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 faithful priest. He will do just as is in my heart and in my soul. And I will build for him an established house, and he will walk about to the face of my anointed all of the days. 36 And it will happen that every remaining one in your house will come to bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and he will say, “Please assign me to one of the priestly positions to eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”

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