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The First Book of Samuel

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(Luke 1:46–56)
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Then Hannah prayed, saying, “In my inner being I rejoice in what you, Yahweh, have done. I am strong because I belong to you. I laugh at my enemies because you, Yahweh have rescued me from being mocked by them.
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There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us as though you were putting us on top of a huge rock where we can be safe from danger.
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You people who oppose God, stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows everything, and he will evaluate everyone’s actions. So do not speak so arrogantly!
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Yahweh, you break the bows of mighty soldiers, but you give strength to those who stumble because they are weak.
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Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people to earn money to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry anymore. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely because they have all died.
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Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who were almost dead. For some people, it seems that they will soon go to where dead people go, but you cause them to become healthy again.
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Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor, and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people, and you honor some people.
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Sometimes you lift poor people up so that they are no longer sitting in the dust, and you raise up needy people so that they are no longer sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on seats where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.
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You will protect your loyal people, but you will cause the wicked to die and to descend to the dark place where the dead go. We do not defeat our enemies by our own strength.
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Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you oppose them. Yahweh, you will judge people everywhere, even those who live in the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power over his enemies.”
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Then Elkanah and his family returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.

Eli’s Wicked Sons

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Eli’s two sons, who were also priests, were very wicked. They were not faithful to Yahweh.
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The custom was that while the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices in the huge pot at the temple, a priest would send his servant, who would come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand.
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He would stick the fork into the meat in the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take and give it to the priest who sent him.
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However, before the fat on the meat was cut off and burned as a sacrifice to Yahweh, the servant of Eli’s sons would come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat now to take to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”
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If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests cut off and burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”
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Yahweh considered that the young sons of Eli were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.
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As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred apron made out of linen, like the high priest wore.
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Each year his mother made a new little robe for him and took it to him when she went up to Shiloh with her husband to offer a sacrifice.
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Then Eli would ask God to bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.
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Yahweh was indeed very kind to Hannah, for he enabled her to give birth to three other sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh in his temple.
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Now Eli became very old. He often heard about all the evil things that his sons were doing to the Israelite people. He heard that they sometimes slept with the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where God spoke to his people.
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He said to them, “It is terrible that you do such things! Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.
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My sons, stop it! The reports about you that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible!
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If one person sins against another person, God can intercede between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, who will speak up for him?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided that someone needed to kill them.
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The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.

A Prophecy against the House of Eli

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One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ’When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.
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From all the tribes of the Israelite people, I chose him and his male descendants to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron as they worked for me. And I declared that they could take and eat some of the meat that the Israelite people burned on the altar.
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So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded the people to bring to me? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israelite people bring to me!’
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Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, declares: ’I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve me forever. But now I declare this: It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.
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Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong young men in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will live long enough to become old men.
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You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to the other people in Israel. And I repeat that no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.
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There is one of your descendants whom I will spare; I will not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind from weeping; he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.
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And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you that all that I have said will come true.
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I have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want. I will make sure that his descendants will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.
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All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may earn some money to buy some food.”’”
(Luke 1:46–56)
1
Hannah prayed, and said,My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
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There is no one as holy as the LORD, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
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“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
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“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
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Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
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The LORD kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol (a) and brings up.
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The LORD makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
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He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s. He has set the world on them.
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He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.
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Those who strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky.The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
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Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest.

Eli’s Wicked Sons

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Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
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The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
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and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
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Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
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If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
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The sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men despised the LORD’s offering.
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But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
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Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
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Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May The LORD give you offspring (b) from this woman for the petition which was asked of the LORD.” Then they went to their own home.
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The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.
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Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
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No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.
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If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD intended to kill them.
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The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men.

A Prophecy against the House of Eli

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A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?
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Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
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Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
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Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
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Behold,(c) the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
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You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.
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The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes (d) and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.
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This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
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I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
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It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

Fußnoten

(a)2:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.
(b)2:20 or, seed
(c)2:31 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
(d)2:33 or, blind your eyes with tears