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1 Samuel - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.
- No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.
- Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
- The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
- Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
- The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
- The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
- Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
- He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
- Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
- Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.
- Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
- And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth;
- This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
- And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.
- And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.
- And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
- But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.
- And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.
- And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.
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