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1 Samuel 2 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Hannah's Song of Thanksgiving

(cf. Luk 1:46–55 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:1 - And Hannah prayeth, and saith: 'My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:3 - Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 - Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:6 - Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:7 - Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:8 - He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, in the presence of Eli the priest;

The Sin of Eli's Sons

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:12 - and the sons of Eli are sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - And the custom of the priests with the people is: any man sacrificing a sacrifice -- then hath the servant of the priest come in when the flesh is boiling, and the hook of three teeth in his hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:14 - and hath struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the hook bringeth up doth the priest take for himself; thus they do to all Israel who are coming in, there, in Shiloh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:15 - Also before they make perfume with the fat -- then hath the priest's servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, 'Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - and the man saith unto him, 'Let them surely make a perfume (as to-day) with the fat, then take to thee as thy soul desireth;' and he hath said to him, 'Surely now thou dost give; and if not -- I have taken by strength.'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:17 - And the sin of the young men is very great in the presence of Jehovah, for the men have despised the offering of Jehovah.

Samuel before the LORD as a Boy

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:18 - And Samuel is ministering in the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt with an ephod of linen;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - And Eli blessed Elkanah, and his wife, and said, 'Jehovah doth appoint for thee seed of this woman, for the petition which she asked for Jehovah;' and they have gone to their place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:21 - When Jehovah hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with Jehovah.

Eli Rebukes His Sons

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - And Eli is very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling at the opening of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - and he saith to them, 'Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people -- these!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against Jehovah a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though Jehovah hath delighted to put them to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:26 - And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - And there cometh a man of God unto Eli, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah, Was I really revealed unto the house of thy father in their being in Egypt, before Pharaoh's house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded in My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - 'Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:31 - 'Lo, days are coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - and thou hast beheld an adversary in My habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - 'And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, is to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:34 - and this is to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas -- in one day they die both of them;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:35 - and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'
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1 Samuel Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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