1Sa 2 | ABEn | STEP | And Hannah prayed and said, [ 2 is solidified 1 My heart] in the lord ; [ 2 was raised high 1 my horn] by my God; [ 2 was widened 3 over 4 my enemies 1 my mouth]; for I was glad in your deliverance.

1 Samuel 2

CHAPTER 2 Hannah's Praise

1 And Hannah prayed and said, [²is solidified ¹My heart] in the lord; [²was raised high ¹my horn] by my God; [²was widened ³over ⁴my enemies ¹my mouth]; for I was glad in your deliverance. 2 For there is no one holy as the lord; and there is no just one as our God; and there is no holy one besides you. 3 Do not boast, and do not speak high things in superiority! Let not come forth lofty language from out of your mouth! For [²is a God ³of knowledge ¹the lord], and God is preparing his practices. 4 The bow of the mighty is weakened, and the ones being weakened girded on power. 5 The ones full of bread loaves are made less; and the ones hungering disregarded the land; for the sterile gave birth to seven, and the one with many in children weakened. 6 The lord puts to death, and he brings forth alive; he leads them down into Hades, and he leads up. 7 The lord makes poor, and he enriches; he humbles, and elevates. 8 He raises up from the earth the needy, and from the dung he raises the poor to seat him with mighty ones of the people, and [³a throne ⁴of glory ¹inheriting ²to them]; 9 giving the thing vowed for to the one vowing. And he blessed the years of the just; for not by strength is man able. 10 The lord [³weak ¹shall make ²his opponent]. The lord is holy. The lord ascended into heavens, and he thundered. He shall judge the extremities of the earth being just; and he shall give strength to our kings, and he will raise up high the horn of his anointed one. 11 And they went forth unto Ramah unto their house. And the boy was officiating to the lord before the face of Eli the priest.

Eli's Wicked Sons

12 And the sons of Eli the priest [²sons ¹were mischievous], not knowing the lord. 13 And the ordinance of the priest of [²the ³people ¹all] of the one sacrificing was this; that [⁵came ¹the ²servant ³of the ⁴priest] when ever [³boiled ¹the ²meat], and [⁴meat hook ³was a three-pronged ¹in ²his hand]. 14 And he stuck it into the [²kettle ¹great], or into the brass caldron, or into the earthen pot; and all, what ever ascended on the meat hook [³took ⁴to himself ¹the ²priest]. According to thus they did to all Israel in Shiloh to the ones coming to sacrifice to the lord. 15 And before the burning the fat, [⁵would come ¹the ²servant ³of the ⁴priest]. And he said to the man sacrificing, Give meat [³to roast ¹to the ²priest]; for in no way shall I take meat from you cooked from out of the kettle. 16 And if [⁵said ¹the ²man ³who was ⁴sacrificing], [²let there be burnt ¹first] as is fit for the fat, and then you shall take for yourself from all what [²desires ¹your soul]. Then he said, No, but now you shall give it; and if not, I will take it forcefully. 17 And [⁵was ¹the ²sin ³of the ⁴young men] great before the lord, exceedingly, for they annulled the sacrifice of the lord.

Samuel Officiates before The LORD

18 And Samuel was officiating in the presence of the lord, a boy being girded [²ephod ¹with a linen]. 19 And [⁵double garment ⁴a small ³made ¹his ²mother] for him, and offered it to him from days unto days in her ascending with her husband, to sacrifice the sacrifice of the days. 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, saying, [²pay ³to you ¹the lord] seed from out of this woman, for the loan which she treated the lord. And [³went forth ¹the ²man] to his place. 21 And the lord visited Hannah, and she conceived again, and she bore yet three sons and two daughters. And [⁴was magnified ¹the ²boy ³Samuel] in the presence of the lord. 22 And Eli was an old man, exceedingly. And he heard what [²did ¹his sons] to [²the ³sons ⁴of Israel ¹all], and that [²went to bed ¹his sons] with the women standing by the doors of the tent of the testimony. 23 And he said to them, Why do you do according to these things, which I hear being spoken ill of you from the mouth of all the people of the lord? 24 No children, no, for it is not good, the hearing which I hear of the making the people to not serve to the lord. 25 If by sinning [²should sin ¹a man] against a man, then they shall pray for him to the lord. But if [³against the ⁴ lord ²sins ¹a man], who shall pray for him? But they did not hearken to the voice of their father. For willing, the lord preferred to utterly destroy them. 26 And the boy Samuel went on and was magnified, and was in good standing with the lord, and with men. 27 And [⁴came ¹the ²man ³of God] to Eli, and said to him, Thus says the lord, In revealing I revealed myself to the house of your father in their being [⁵in ⁶the land ⁷of Egypt ¹servants ²to the ³house ⁴of Pharaoh]. 28 And I chose the house of your father from out of all the tribes of Israel to officiate as priest to me, to ascend unto my altar, and to burn incense, and to carry an ephod before me. And I gave to the house of your father all the things [³of the ⁴fire ¹of the ²sacrifices] of the sons of Israel for food. 29 Why have you looked upon my incense offering, and upon my sacrifice offering with an impudent eye, and glorified your sons above me, in them blessing themselves with the first-fruit of every sacrifice of Israel, prior of me? 30 On account of this, thus says the lord, the God of Israel, I said, Your house, and the house of your father shall go through before me unto the eon. And now, says the lord, not even one will be to me, for the ones glorifying me I will glorify, and the ones treating me with contempt shall be disgraced. 31 Behold, [²come ¹days], and I shall utterly destroy your seed, and the seed of the house of your father. 32 And you shall look upon [²fortifications ¹new] upon all the things which [²shall do good ¹Israel]. And there will not be an old man in your house all the days. 33 And a man whom I should not utterly destroy among you from my altar, I will make [²to fail ¹his eyes], and [²will flow down ¹his life], and all the ones abounding of your house shall fall by the broadsword of men. 34 And this is to you the sign which shall come upon [²two ³sons ¹these your], on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day [²shall die ¹both]. 35 And I will raise up for myself [²priest ¹a trustworthy] who [²all ³the things ⁴in ⁵my heart ⁶and ⁷the things ⁸in ⁹my soul ¹will do]. And I will build to him [²house ¹a trustworthy], and he shall go through before my anointed one all the days. 36 And it will be everyone being left behind among your house shall come to do obeisance to him for an obolus of silver, and for [²bread loaf ¹one], saying, Throw me aside upon one of your priesthoods to eat bread!