1Samuel 2:26 - Prayer Tents

Hannah’s Song of Thanksgiving

2HANNAH PRAYED, and said, My heart exults {and} triumphs in the Lord; my horn (my strength) is lifted up in the Lord. My mouth is no longer silent, for it is opened wide over my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.H2584H6419H559H3820H5970H3068H7161H7311H3068H6310H7337H341H8055H3444

2There is none holy like the Lord, there is none besides You; there is no Rock like our God.H6918H3068H1115H6697H430

3Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance go forth from your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.H1696H7235H1364H1364H6277H3318H6310H3068H410H1844H5949H8505

4The bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.H7198H1368H2844H3782H247H2428

5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children languishes {and} is forlorn.H7649H7936H3899H7457H2308H6135H3205H7651H7227H1121H535

6The Lord slays and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.H3068H4191H2421H3381H7585H5927

7The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He lifts up.H3068H3423H6238H8213H637H7311

8He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with nobles and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He has set the world upon them.H6965H1800H6083H7311H34H830H3427H5081H5157H3678H3519H4690H776H3068H7896H8398

9He will guard the feet of His godly ones, but the wicked shall be silenced {and} perish in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.H8104H7272H2623H7563H1826H2822H3581H376H1396

10The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them will He thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge [all peoples] to the ends of the earth; and He will give strength to His king (King) and exalt the power of His anointed (Anointed His Christ).H7378H3068H2865H8064H7481H3068H1777H657H776H5414H5797H4428H7311H7161H4899

11Elkanah and his wife Hannah returned to Ramah to his house. But the child ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.H511H3212H7414H1004H5288H1961H8334H3068H6440H5941H3548

The Sin of Eli’s Sons

12The sons of Eli were base {and} worthless; they did not know {or} regard the Lord.H1121H5941H1121H1100H3045H3068

13And the custom of the priests with the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came while the flesh was boiling with a fleshhook of three prongs in his hand;H3548H4941H5971H376H2076H2077H3548H5288H935H1320H1310H4207H7969H8127H3027

14And he thrust it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh with all the Israelites who came there.H5221H3595H1731H7037H6517H4207H5927H3548H3947H6213H7887H3478H935

15Also, before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came and said to the man who sacrificed, Give the priest meat to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.H6999H2459H3548H5288H935H559H376H2076H5414H1320H6740H3548H3947H1310H1320H2416

16And if the man said to him, Let them burn the fat first, and then you may take as much as you want, the priest's servant would say, No! Give it to me now or I will take it by force.H376H559H6999H6999H2459H3117H3947H5315H183H559H5414H3947H2394

17So the sin of the [two] young men was very great before the Lord, for they despised the offering of the Lord.H2403H5288H3966H1419H6440H3068H582H5006H4503H3068

Samuel before the Lord as a Boy

18But Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with a linen ephod.H8050H8334H6440H3068H5288H2296H906H646

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.H517H6213H6996H4598H5927H3117H3117H5927H376H2076H3117H2077

20And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, May the Lord give you children by this woman for the gift she asked for {and} gave to the Lord. Then they would go to their own home.H5941H1288H511H802H559H3068H7760H2233H802H7596H7592H3068H1980H4725

21And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.H3588H3068H6485H2584H2029H3205H7969H1121H8147H1323H5288H8050H1431H5973H3068

Eli Rebukes His Sons

22Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel and how they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.H5941H3966H2204H8085H1121H6213H3478H7901H802H6633H6607H168H4150

23And he said to them, Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.H559H6213H1697H8085H7451H1697H5971

24No, my sons; it is no good report which I hear the Lord's people spreading abroad.H1121H2896H8052H8085H3068H5971H5674

25If one man wrongs another, God will mediate for him; but if a man wrongs the Lord, who shall intercede for him? Yet they did not listen to their father, for it was the Lord's will to slay them.H376H2398H376H430H6419H376H2398H3068H6419H8085H6963H1H3068H2654H4191

26Now the boy Samuel grew and was in favor both with the Lord and with men.H5288H8050H1432H1980H2896H3068H582

27A man of God came to Eli and said to him, Thus has the Lord said: I plainly revealed Myself to the house of your father [forefather Aaron] when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house.H935H376H430H5941H559H559H3068H1540H1540H1004H1H4714H6547H1004

28Moreover, I selected him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer on My altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me. And I gave [from then on] to the house of your father [forefather] all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.H977H7626H3478H3548H5927H4196H6999H7004H5375H646H6440H5414H1004H1H801H1121H3478

29Why then do you kick [trample upon, treat with contempt] My sacrifice and My offering which I commanded, and honor your sons above Me by fattening yourselves upon the choicest part of every offering of My people Israel?H1163H2077H4503H6680H4583H3513H1121H1254H7225H4503H3478H5971

30Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, I did promise that your house and that of your father [forefather Aaron] should go in and out before Me forever. But now the Lord says, Be it far from Me. For those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.H3068H430H3478H5002H559H559H1004H1004H1H1980H6440H5704H5769H3068H5002H2486H3513H3513H959H7043

31Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your own father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.H3117H935H1438H2220H2220H1H1004H2205H1004

32And you shall behold the distress of My house, even in all the prosperity which God will give Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.H5027H6862H4583H3190H3478H2205H1004H3117

33Yet I will not cut off from My altar every man of yours; some shall survive to weep and mourn [over the family's ruin], but all the increase of your house shall die in their best years.H376H3772H4196H3615H5869H109H5315H4768H1004H4191H582

34And what befalls your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be a sign to you--in one day they both shall die. [Fulfilled in I Sam. 4:17, 18.]H226H935H8147H1121H2652H6372H259H3117H4191H8147

35And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest (Priest), who shall do according to what is in My heart and mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed (Anointed) forever.H6965H539H3548H6213H3824H5315H1129H539H1004H1980H6440H4899H3117

36Everyone who is left in your house shall come crouching to him for a piece of silver and a bit of bread and say, Put me, I pray you, into a priest's office so I may have a piece of bread.H3498H1004H935H7812H95H3701H3603H3899H559H5596H259H3550H398H6595H3899