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1 Samuel 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Hannah’s Prayer
The Sins of Eli’s Sons
(cf. Luke 1:46–55 )

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:1 - And Hannah prayed and said:

“My heart rejoices in the LORD;
My horn[fn] is exalted in the LORD.
I smile at my enemies,
Because I rejoice in Your salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - “No one is holy like the LORD,
For there is none besides You,
Nor is there any rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:3 - “Talk no more so very proudly;
Let no arrogance come from your mouth,
For the LORD is the God of knowledge;
And by Him actions are weighed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 - “The bows of the mighty men are broken,
And those who stumbled are girded with strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
And the hungry have ceased to hunger.
Even the barren has borne seven,
And she who has many children has become feeble.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6 - “The LORD kills and makes alive;
He brings down to the grave and brings up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:7 - The LORD makes poor and makes rich;
He brings low and lifts up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:8 - He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
To set them among princes
And make them inherit the throne of glory.

“For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s,
And He has set the world upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the wicked shall be silent in darkness.

“For by strength no man shall prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces;
From heaven He will thunder against them.
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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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child ministered to the LORD before Eli the priest.
The Wicked Sons of Eli

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:12 - Now the sons of Eli were corrupt;[fn] they did not know the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:14 - Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - And if the man said to him, “They should really burn the fat first; then you may take as much as your heart desires,” he would then answer him, “No, but you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:17 - Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Samuel’s Childhood Ministry

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:18 - But Samuel ministered before the LORD, even as a child, wearing a linen ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - Moreover his mother used to make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “The LORD give you descendants from this woman for the loan that was given to the LORD.” Then they would go to their own home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:21 - And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
Prophecy Against Eli’s Household

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - Now Eli was very old; and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel,[fn] and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - So he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - “No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make the LORD’s people transgress.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - “If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” Nevertheless they did not heed the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:26 - And the child Samuel grew in stature, and in favor both with the LORD and men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - ‘Did I not choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod before Me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - ‘Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would 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 shall be lightly esteemed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:31 - ‘Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - ‘And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - ‘But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:34 - ‘Now this shall be a sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:35 - ‘Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - ‘And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and say, “Please, put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
That is, strength
Literally sons of Belial
Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint omit the rest of this verse.
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