1 Sam. 2
:1
2:1
aAnd Hannah prayed and said:
My heart exults in Jehovah;
My
bhorn is exalted in Jehovah;
My mouth is enlarged against my enemies,
Because I rejoice in Your
1csalvation.
1 Sam. 2
:2
2:2
There is none
aholy like Jehovah,
For there is none besides You;
Nor is there a
brock like our God.
1 Sam. 2
:3
2:3
Talk no more so very proudly;
Do not let arrogance go forth from your mouth;
For Jehovah is a God of
aknowledge,
1And actions are
bweighed by Him.
1 Sam. 2
:4
2:4
The bows of the mighty men are broken,
And those who stumbled are girded with strength.
1 Sam. 2
:5
2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for food,
And those who were
ahungry are not so any longer.
She who was
bbarren has borne seven,
And she who had many children languishes.
1 Sam. 2
:6
2:6
Jehovah kills and makes
aalive;
He brings down to Sheol and
bbrings up.
1 Sam. 2
:7
2:7
Jehovah makes poor and makes rich;
He makes low and also
alifts up.
1 Sam. 2
:8
2:8
aHe raises the poor from the dust,
From the ash heap He lifts the needy,
That He may seat
them with princes
And cause
them to inherit the
bthrone of glory.
For the pillars of the
cearth are Jehovah’s,
And He has set the world upon them.
1 Sam. 2
:9
2:9
He will keep the feet of His faithful ones,
But the wicked will be silenced in darkness;
For not by
astrength shall any man prevail.
1 Sam. 2
:10
2:10
Those who strive with Jehovah will be shattered;
Against them He will thunder in heaven.
Jehovah will
ajudge the ends of the earth;
And He will give strength to His king
And exalt the
bhorn of His anointed.
1 Sam. 2
:11
2:11
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child
1aministered to Jehovah before
2Eli the priest.
C.
His relationship with the stale and waning Aaronic priesthood
2:12—7:17
1.
Observing the deterioration of the degraded Aaronic priesthood
2:12-26
1 Sam. 2
:12
2:12
Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not
aknow Jehovah,
1 Sam. 2
:13
2:13
Nor did they regard the priests’ rightful
adue with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the flesh was boiling,
1 Sam. 2
:14
2:14
And he would thrust
it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot; all that the fork brought up, the priest took with it. Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
1 Sam. 2
:15
2:15
Indeed before they burned the
afat, the priest’s attendant would come and say to the man sacrificing, Give some flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not accept boiled flesh from you, but only raw.
1 Sam. 2
:16
2:16
And if the man said to him, Let them burn up the fat first, then take as much as your soul desires; he would say, No, but you shall give
it now; otherwise, I will take
it by force.
1 Sam. 2
:17
2:17
And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.
1 Sam. 2
:18
2:18
And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, as a boy wearing a linen
aephod.
1 Sam. 2
:19
2:19
And his mother would make him a little robe and bring
it up to him yearly when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
1 Sam. 2
:20
2:20
And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, May Jehovah give you seed by this woman in place of the one she requested of Jehovah; and they would go back to their place.
1 Sam. 2
:21
2:21
1And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel
agrew before Jehovah.
1 Sam. 2
:22
2:22
Now Eli was very old, and he heard of all that his sons did to all Israel and how they lay with the women who were engaged in service at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
1 Sam. 2
:23
2:23
And he said to them,
1Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
1 Sam. 2
:24
2:24
No, my sons; for it is not a good report
1that I hear Jehovah’s people spreading.
1 Sam. 2
:25
2:25
If one man sins against another man, God will arbitrate for him; but if a man sins against Jehovah, who will arbitrate for him? But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was pleased to kill them.
1 Sam. 2
:26
2:26
And the boy Samuel continued to
agrow in stature and in favor both with Jehovah and with men.
2.
Realizing God's severe judgment on the house of Eli
2:27—3:21
1 Sam. 2
:27
2:27
And a man of God came to Eli and said to him, Thus says Jehovah, I
arevealed Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt
1as slaves to Pharaoh’s house.
1 Sam. 2
:28
2:28
And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My
apriest, to go up to My altar, to burn incense,
and to wear the ephod before Me. And I gave the house of your father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel.
1 Sam. 2
:29
2:29
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering, which I have commanded in
My habitation, and honor your sons more than Me by making yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?
1 Sam. 2
:30
2:30
Therefore Jehovah the God of Israel declares, I surely said that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me
aforever; but now Jehovah declares, Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who spurn Me will be lightly esteemed.
1 Sam. 2
:31
2:31
The days are now coming when I will
acut off your arm and the arm of the house of your father, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
1 Sam. 2
:32
2:32
And you shall see the
adistress of
My habitation in the midst of all the good that
1I will do to Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
1 Sam. 2
:33
2:33
And that man of yours whom I do not cut off from My altar
shall be left to consume your eyes and to grieve your soul, and all the increase of your house shall die
1by the swords of men.
1 Sam. 2
:34
2:34
And this will be the sign to you, which will come upon your two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: In one day both of them shall die.
1 Sam. 2
:35
2:35
And I will raise up for Myself a faithful
1apriest, who will do according to what is in My
2heart and in My
2mind; and I will build him a sure
bhouse; and
che will
3go before My anointed continually.
1 Sam. 2
:36
2:36
And everyone who is left of your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and for a loaf of bread, and will say, Please put me in one of the priests’ offices that I may eat a morsel of bread.
