The First Book of Shemu'el, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now there was a certain man of Ramatayim-Tzofim, of the
hill-country of Efrayim, and his name was Elkana, the son of Yerocham,
the son of Elihu, the son of Tochu, the son of Tzuf, an Efratite:
{1:2} and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no
children. {1:3} This man went up out of his city from year to year to
worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons
of `Eli, Hofni and Pinechas, [1>]Kohanim[<1] to the LORD, were there.
{1:4} When the day came that Elkana sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: {1:5} but
to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD
had shut up her womb. {1:6} Her rival provoked her sore, to make her
fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. {1:7} [as] he did so year
by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked
her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. {1:8} Elkana her husband
said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is
your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons? {1:9} So
Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had
drunk. Now `Eli the [2>]Kohen[<2] was sitting on his seat by the
door-post of the temple of the LORD. {1:10} She was in bitterness of
soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept sore. {1:11} She vowed a vow,
and said, the LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction
of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but
will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to the
LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his
head. {1:12} It happened, as she continued praying before the LORD,
that `Eli marked her mouth. {1:13} Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart;
only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore `Eli
thought she had been drunken. {1:14} `Eli said to her, How long will
you be drunken? put away your wine from you. {1:15} Hannah answered,
No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither
wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.
{1:16} Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the
abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
{1:17} Then `Eli answered, Go in shalom; and the God of Yisra'el grant
your petition that you have asked of him. {1:18} She said, Let your
handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate;
and her facial expression wasn't sad any more. {1:19} They rose up in
the morning early, and worshiped before the LORD, and returned, and
came to their house to Ramah: and Elkana knew Hannah his wife; and the
LORD remembered her. {1:20} It happened, when the time was come about,
that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Shemu'el,
[saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD. {1:21} The man Elkana,
and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice,
and his vow. {1:22} But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her
husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will
bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide
forever. {1:23} Elkana her husband said to her, Do what seems you
good; wait until you have weaned him; only the LORD establish his
word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
{1:24} When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three
bulls, and one efah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to
the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young. {1:25} They
killed the bull, and brought the child to `Eli. {1:26} She said, Oh,
my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you
here, praying to the LORD. {1:27} For this child I prayed; and the
LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him: {1:28} therefore
also I have granted him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is granted
to the LORD. He worshiped the LORD there.
{2:1} Hannah prayed, and said:
My heart exults in the LORD;
My horn is exalted in the LORD;
My mouth is enlarged over my enemies;
Because I rejoice in your salvation.
{2:2} There is none holy as the LORD;
For there is none besides you,
Neither is there any rock like our God.
{2:3} Talk no more so exceeding proudly;
Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For the LORD is a God of knowledge,
By him actions are weighed.
{2:4} The bows of the mighty men are broken;
Those who stumbled are girded with strength.
{2:5} Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread;
Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]:
Yes, the barren has borne seven;
She who has many children languishes.
{2:6} The LORD kills, and makes alive:
He brings down to She'ol, and brings up.
{2:7} The LORD makes poor, and makes rich:
He brings low, he also lifts up.
{2:8} He raises up the poor out of the dust,
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill,
To make them sit with princes,
Inherit the throne of glory:
For the pillars of the [1>]eretz[<1] are the LORD's,
He has set the world on them.
{2:9} He will keep the feet of his holy ones;
But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;
For by strength shall no man prevail.
{2:10} Those who strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces;
Against them will he thunder in the sky:
The LORD will judge the ends of the [2>]eretz[<2];
He will give strength to his king,
Exalt the horn of his anointed.
{2:11} Elkana went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to
the LORD before `Eli the [3>]Kohen[<3]. {2:12} Now the sons of `Eli
were base men; they didn't know the LORD. {2:13} The custom of the
[4>]Kohanim[<4] with the people was that when any man offered
sacrifice, the [5>]Kohen[<5]'s servant came, while the flesh was
boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand; {2:14} and he
struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the
flesh-hook brought up the [6>]Kohen[<6] took therewith. So they did in
Shiloh to all the Yisra'elites who came there. {2:15} Yes, before they
burnt the fat, the [7>]Kohen[<7]'s servant came, and said to the man
who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the [8>]Kohen[<8]; for he will
not have boiled flesh of you, but raw. {2:16} If the man said to him,
They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your
soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and
if not, I will take it by force. {2:17} The sin of the young men was
very great before the LORD; for the men despised the offering of the
LORD. {2:18} But Shemu'el ministered before the LORD, being a child,
girded with a linen efod. {2:19} Moreover 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. {2:20} `Eli blessed Elkana
and his wife, and said, the LORD give you seed of this woman for the
petition which was asked of the LORD. They went to their own home.
{2:21} The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons
and two daughters. The child Shemu'el grew before the LORD. {2:22} Now
`Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Yisra'el,
and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the
tent of meeting. {2:23} He said to them, Why do you such things? for I
hear of your evil dealings from all this people. {2:24} No, my sons;
for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to
disobey. {2:25} If one man sin against another, God shall judge him;
but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?
Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father,
because the LORD was minded to kill them. {2:26} The child Shemu'el
grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD, and also with men.
{2:27} There came a man of God to `Eli, and said to him, Thus says the
LORD, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were
in Mitzrayim [in bondage] to Par`oh's house? {2:28} and did I choose
him out of all the tribes of Yisra'el to be my [9>]Kohen[<9], to go up
to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an efod before me? and did I
give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of
Yisra'el made by fire? {2:29} Why kick you 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 Yisra'el my people? {2:30} Therefore the LORD, the God of
Yisra'el, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your
father, should walk 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. {2:31} Behold, the days come,
that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that
there shall not be an old man in your house. {2:32} You shall see the
affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall
give Yisra'el; and there shall not be an old man in your house
forever. {2:33} The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my
altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and
all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
{2:34} This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two
sons, on Hofni and Pinechas: in one day they shall die both of them.
{2:35} I will raise me up a faithful [10>]Kohen[<10], that shall do
according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will
build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
{2:36} It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall
come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread,
and shall say, Please put me into one of the [11>]Kohanim[<11]'
offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
{3:1} The child Shemu'el ministered to the LORD before `Eli. The
word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent
vision. {3:2} It happened at that time, when `Eli was laid down in his
place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
{3:3} and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Shemu'el had laid
down [to sleep], in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was;
{3:4} that the LORD called Shemu'el; and he said, Here am I. {3:5} He
ran to `Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't
call; lie down again. He went and lay down. {3:6} The LORD called yet
again, Shemu'el. Shemu'el arose and went to `Eli, and said, Here am I;
for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.
{3:7} Now Shemu'el didn't yet know the LORD, neither was the word of
the LORD yet revealed to him. {3:8} The LORD called Shemu'el again the
third time. He arose and went to `Eli, and said, Here am I; for you
called me. `Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child. {3:9}
Therefore `Eli said to Shemu'el, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he
call you, that you shall say, Speak, the LORD; for your servant hears.
So Shemu'el went and lay down in his place. {3:10} The LORD came, and
stood, and called as at other times, Shemu'el, Shemu'el. Then Shemu'el
said, Speak; for your servant hears. {3:11} The LORD said to Shemu'el,
Behold, I will do a thing in Yisra'el, at which both the ears of
everyone who hears it shall tingle. {3:12} In that day I will perform
against `Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the
beginning even to the end. {3:13} For I have told him that I will
judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his
sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
{3:14} Therefore I have sworn to the house of `Eli, that the iniquity
of `Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering
forever. {3:15} Shemu'el lay until the morning, and opened the doors
of the house of the LORD. Shemu'el feared to show `Eli the vision.
{3:16} Then `Eli called Shemu'el, and said, Shemu'el, my son. He said,
Here am I. {3:17} He said, "What is the thing that [the LORD] has
spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and
more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he
spoke to you." {3:18} Shemu'el told him every whit, and hid nothing
from him. He said, It is the LORD: let him do what seems him good.
{3:19} Shemu'el grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of
his words fall to the ground. {3:20} All Yisra'el from Dan even to
Be'er-Sheva knew that Shemu'el was established to be a prophet of the
LORD. {3:21} The LORD appeared again in Shiloh; for the LORD revealed
himself to Shemu'el in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:3} priests
[2] {1:9} priest
[1] {2:8} earth
[2] {2:10} earth
[3] {2:11} priest
[4] {2:13} priests
[5] {2:13} priest
[6] {2:14} priest
[7] {2:15} priest
[8] {2:15} priest
[9] {2:28} priest
[10] {2:35} priest
[11] {2:36} priests
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