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Chapter 2  
     
1.
 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
  
2.
 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
  
3.
 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
  
4.
 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
  
5.
 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren has born seven; and she that has many children is waxed feeble.
  
6.
 The Lord kills, and makes alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
  
7.
 The Lord makes poor, and makes rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.  
8.
 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he has set the world upon them.
  
9.
 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
  
10.
 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
  
11.
 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.
  
12.
 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
  
13.
 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
  
14.
 And he struck 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 unto all the Israelites that came there.
  
15.
 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
  
16.
 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desires; then he would answer him, Nay; but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
  
17.
 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.
  
18.
 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
  
19.
 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
  
20.
 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give you seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.
  
21.
 And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
  
22.
 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
  
23.
 And he said unto them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
  
24.
 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the Lord's people to transgress.
  
25.
 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
  
26.
 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.
  
27.
 And there came a prophet of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus said the Lord in dream, Did He not plainly appear unto the house of thy ancestors, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
  
28.
 And did He not choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be His priest, to offer upon His altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before The Lord? and did He not give unto the house of thy ancestor all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
  
29.
 Wherefore kick you at the sacrifice and at His offering, which He has commanded in His habitation; and honourest thy sons above Him, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel His people?
  
30.
 Wherefore the Prophet of the Lord God of Israel said, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before Him for ever: but now the Lord has said, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  
31.
 Behold, the days come, that He will cut off your arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.
  
32.
 And you shall see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in your house for ever.
  
33.
 And the man of your, whom He shall not cut off from His 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.
  
34.
 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
  
35.
 And The Lord will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in His heart and in His mind: and He will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before His anointed for ever.
  
36.
 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in your house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
  

 
 
 

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