1 Samuel 2

1Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Ex 15:21 · Judg 5:1 · Neh 11:17 · Ps 9:14 · Ps 13:5 · +22 more

2There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Lev 19:2 · Deut 3:24 · Deut 4:35 · Deut 32:4 · Deut 32:20 · +23 more

3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 1Ki 8:39 · Job 31:6 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 94:4 · Ps 94:7 · +14 more

4“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.Cross-references: Ps 37:15 · Ps 37:17 · Ps 46:9 · Ps 76:3 · Isa 10:4 · Jer 37:10 · +5 more

5Those 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:6 · 1Sam 1:20 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 113:9 · Isa 54:1 · Jer 15:9 · +3 more

6“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · 1Sam 20:3 · 2Ki 5:7 · Job 5:18 · Ps 68:20 · Ps 116:3 · +8 more

7Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Job 1:21 · Job 5:11 · Ps 75:7 · Ps 102:10 · Isa 2:12 · +2 more

8He 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 Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.Cross-references: Gen 41:14 · Gen 41:40 · 1Sam 15:17 · 2Sam 7:8 · Job 2:8 · Job 36:6 · +17 more

9He 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.Cross-references: Deut 33:3 · 1Sam 17:49 · Job 5:16 · Job 5:24 · Ps 33:16 · Ps 37:23 · +24 more

10Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”Cross-references: Ex 15:6 · Judg 5:31 · 1Sam 7:10 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Sam 12:13 · 1Sam 12:18 · +38 more

11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:19 · 1Sam 1:28 · 1Sam 2:18 · 1Sam 3:1 · 1Sam 3:15

12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 13:13 · Judg 2:10 · Judg 19:22 · 1Sam 3:7 · 1Sam 10:27 · 1Sam 25:17 · +13 more

13The 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;Cross-references: Lev 7:29

14and 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.Cross-references: Ex 29:27 · Lev 7:34 · 1Sam 2:29 · Isa 56:11 · Mal 1:10 · 2Pet 2:13

15Yes, 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.”Cross-references: Lev 3:3 · Lev 3:16 · Rom 16:18 · Phil 3:19 · Jude 1:12

16If 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.”Cross-references: Lev 3:16 · Lev 7:23 · Judg 18:25 · Neh 5:15 · Mic 2:1 · Mic 3:5 · +1 more

17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.Cross-references: Gen 6:11 · Gen 10:9 · Gen 13:13 · 2Ki 21:6 · Ps 51:4 · Isa 3:8 · +3 more

18But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.Cross-references: Ex 28:4 · Lev 8:7 · 1Sam 2:11 · 1Sam 2:28 · 1Sam 3:1 · 1Sam 22:18 · +2 more

19Moreover 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.Cross-references: Ex 23:14 · 1Sam 1:3 · 1Sam 1:21

20Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.Cross-references: Gen 14:19 · Gen 27:27 · Num 6:23 · Ruth 2:12 · Ruth 4:11 · 1Sam 1:11 · +2 more

21Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 21:1 · Judg 13:24 · 1Sam 1:19 · 1Sam 2:26 · 1Sam 3:19 · Luke 1:68 · +3 more

22Now 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.Cross-references: Ex 38:8 · 1Sam 2:13 · 1Sam 8:1 · Jer 7:9 · Ezek 22:26 · Hos 4:9

23He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.Cross-references: 1Ki 1:6 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 3:3 · Jer 8:12 · Acts 9:4 · Acts 14:15 · +1 more

24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.Cross-references: Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 2:17 · 1Sam 2:22 · 1Ki 13:18 · 1Ki 15:30 · 2Ki 10:31 · +8 more

25If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.Cross-references: Num 15:30 · Deut 1:17 · Deut 2:30 · Deut 17:8 · Deut 25:1 · Josh 11:20 · +9 more

26The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:21 · Prov 3:3 · Luke 1:80 · Luke 2:40 · Luke 2:52 · Acts 2:47 · +1 more

27A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?Cross-references: Ex 4:14 · Ex 4:27 · Ex 12:1 · Ex 12:43 · Deut 33:1 · Judg 6:8 · +5 more

28Didn’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?Cross-references: Ex 28:1 · Ex 28:4 · Ex 28:6 · Ex 29:4 · Ex 39:1 · Lev 2:3 · +14 more

29Why 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?’Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 32:15 · Deut 33:9 · Josh 18:1 · 1Sam 2:13 · +12 more

30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.Cross-references: Ex 28:43 · Ex 29:9 · Num 11:20 · Num 25:11 · Num 35:34 · Judg 9:10 · +19 more

31Behold, 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:2 · 1Sam 4:11 · 1Sam 14:3 · 1Sam 22:17 · 1Ki 2:26 · 1Ki 2:35 · +4 more

32You 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:4 · 1Sam 4:11 · 1Sam 4:22 · 1Ki 2:26 · Ps 78:59 · Zech 8:4

33The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.Cross-references: 1Sam 22:21 · 1Ki 1:7 · 1Ki 1:19 · 1Ki 2:26 · Matt 2:16

34This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:12 · 1Sam 4:11 · 1Sam 4:17 · 1Ki 13:3 · 1Ki 14:12

35I 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.Cross-references: Ex 1:21 · Num 25:13 · 1Sam 12:3 · 1Sam 16:13 · 1Sam 25:28 · 2Sam 7:11 · +14 more

36It 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.”’”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:29 · 1Ki 2:27 · Ezek 44:10 · Mal 1:13