(KJV) 1 Samuel 21

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⥃Hannah’s Prayer of Thanksgiving [ Luke 1:46–56 ]

[1] And Hannah prayed2, and said, My heart3 rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn4 is exalted in the Lord: my mouth5 is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice6 in thy salvation. [2] [There is] none holy7 as the Lord: for [there is] none beside8 thee: neither [is there] any rock9 like our God. [3] Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy10 come out of your mouth: for the Lord [is] a God11 of knowledge, and by him12 actions are weighed. [4] The bows13 of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that stumbled14 are girded with strength. [5] [They that were] full15 have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren16 hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble17. [6] The Lord killeth18, and maketh alive: he bringeth19 down to the grave, and bringeth up. [7] The Lord maketh20 poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth21 low, and lifteth up. [8] He raiseth up the poor22 out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them23] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars24 of the earth [are] the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them. [9] He will keep25 the feet of his saints26, and the wicked shall be silent27 in darkness; for by strength28 shall no man prevail. [10] The adversaries29 of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven30 shall he thunder31 upon them: the Lord shall judge32 the ends of the earth; and he shall33 give strength unto his king, and exalt34 the horn of his anointed35. [11] And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister36 unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

⥃Eli’s Wicked Sons

[12] [¶]Now the sons37 of Eli [were] sons of Belial38; they knew39 not the Lord. [13] And the priests’ 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 fleshhook40 brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. [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.41 [16] And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently42, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take43 [it] by force. [17] Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before44 the Lord: for men abhorred45 the offering of the Lord.

[18] [¶]But Samuel ministered46 before the Lord, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod47. [19] Moreover his mother made him a little coat48, and brought [it] to him from year to year49, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

[20] [¶]And Eli blessed50 Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan51 which is lent to the Lord. And they went unto their own home.52 [21] And the Lord visited53 Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew54 before the Lord.

[22] [¶]Now55 Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto56 all Israel; and how they lay with the women57 that assembled58 [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. [23] And he said unto them, Why59 do ye such things? for I hear60 of your evil dealings by all61 this people. [24] Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good62 report that I hear: ye make63 the Lord’s people to transgress64. [25] If one man sin against65 another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man66 sin against the Lord, who shall67 intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened68 not unto the voice of their father, because69 the Lord would slay them. [26] And the child Samuel grew on70, and was in71 favour both with the Lord, and also with men.

⥃A Prophecy against the House of Eli

[27] And there came a man72 of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Did I73 plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? [28] And did I74 choose him out of all the tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give75 unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? [29] Wherefore kick ye76 at my sacrifice and at mine77 offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation78; and honourest79 thy sons above me, to make80 yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? [30] Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said81 indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far82 from me; for them83 that honour me I will honour84, and they that despise85 me shall be lightly esteemed. [31] Behold, the days come, that I will cut86 off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. [32] And thou shalt see an enemy87 [in my] habitation, in all [the wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man88 in thine house for ever. [33] And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from mine altar, [shall be] to consume89 thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower90 of their age. [34] And this [shall be] a sign91 unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day92 they shall die both of them. [35] And I will raise93 me up a faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build94 him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine95 anointed for ever. [36] And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left96 in thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put97 me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices98, that I may eat99 a piece of bread.

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  1. 1Sam 2:1, Hannah’s song in thankfulness; 1Sam 2:12, The sin of Eli’s sons; 1Sam 2:18, Samuel’s ministry; 1Sam 2:20, By Eli’s blessing Hannah is more fruitful; 1Sam 2:22, Eli reproves his sons; 1Sam 2:27, A prophecy against Eli’s house. ↩

  2. Neh 11:17; Hab 3:1; Phil 4:6 ↩

  3. Luke 1:46, Luke 1:47-56; Rom 5:11; Phil 3:3, Phil 4:4; 1Pet 1:8 ↩

  4. Ps 18:2, Ps 89:17, Ps 92:10, Ps 112:8-9; Luke 1:69 ↩

  5. Exod 15:1, Exod 15:21; Judg 5:1-2; Ps 51:15, Ps 71:8; Rev 18:20 ↩

  6. Ps 9:14, Ps 13:5, Ps 20:5, Ps 35:9, Ps 118:14; Isa 12:2-3; Hab 3:18 ↩

  7. Exod 15:11; Deut 32:4; Ps 99:5, Ps 99:9, Ps 111:9; Isa 6:3, Isa 57:15; 1Pet 1:16; Rom 4:8, Rom 15:4 ↩

  8. Deut 4:35; 2Sam 22:32; Ps 73:25; Isa 43:10-11, Isa 44:6, Isa 44:8 ↩

  9. Deut 3:24, Deut 32:20, Deut 32:31, Deut 32:39; Ps 18:2, Ps 71:3, Ps 71:19, Ps 86:8, Ps 89:6, Ps 89:8; Isa 40:18; Jer 10:6 ↩

  10. Heb. hard, Ps 94:4; Prov 8:13; Isa 37:23; Dan 4:30-31, Dan 4:37; Mal 3:13; Jude 1:15-16 ↩

  11. 1Kgs 8:39; Ps 44:21, Ps 94:7-10, Ps 147:5; Jer 17:10; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:23 ↩

  12. Job 31:6; Isa 26:7; Dan 5:27 ↩

  13. Ps 37:15, Ps 37:17, Ps 46:9, Ps 76:3 ↩

  14. Isa 10:4; Jer 37:10; 2Cor 4:9-10, 2Cor 12:9; Eph 6:14; Phil 4:13; Heb 11:34 ↩

  15. Ps 34:10; Luke 1:53, Luke 16:25 ↩

  16. 1Sam 1:20; Ps 113:9 ↩

  17. 1Sam 1:6; Isa 54:1; Jer 15:9; Gal 4:27 ↩

  18. Deut 32:39; 2Kgs 5:7; Job 5:18; Ps 68:20; Hos 6:1-2; John 5:25-29, John 11:25; Rev 1:18 ↩

  19. 1Sam 20:3; Ps 116:3; Isa 26:19; Jonah 2:2-6; Matt 12:40; 2Cor 1:9-10 ↩

  20. Deut 8:17-18; Job 1:21, Job 5:11; Ps 102:10 ↩

  21. Ps 75:7; Isa 2:12; Jas 1:9-10, Jas 4:10 ↩

  22. Job 2:8, Job 42:10-12; Ps 113:7-8; Dan 4:17; Luke 1:51-52 ↩

  23. 1Sam 15:17; Gen 41:14, Gen 41:40; 2Sam 7:8; Job 36:6-7; Eccl 4:14; Dan 2:48, Dan 6:3; Jas 2:5; Rev 1:6, Rev 3:21, Rev 5:10, Rev 22:5 ↩

  24. Job 38:4-6; Ps 24:2, Ps 102:25, Ps 104:5; Heb 1:3 ↩

  25. Job 5:24; Ps 37:23-24, Ps 91:11-12, Ps 94:18, Ps 121:3, Ps 121:5, Ps 121:8; Prov 16:9; 1Pet 1:5 ↩

  26. Deut 33:3; Ps 37:28, Ps 97:10; Prov 2:8; Jude 1:1, Jude 1:3 ↩

  27. Job 5:16; Eccl 5:17; Jer 8:14; Zeph 1:15; Matt 8:12, Matt 22:12-13; Rom 3:19; 2Pet 2:17; Jude 1:13 ↩

  28. 1Sam 17:49-50; Ps 33:16-17; Eccl 9:11; Jer 9:23; Zech 4:6 ↩

  29. Exod 15:6; Judg 5:31; Ps 2:9, Ps 21:8-9, Ps 68:1-2, Ps 92:9; Luke 19:27 ↩

  30. The LXX insert, "Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, nor the strong glory in his strength, nor the rich glory in his riches; but let him who glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth the Lord, and executeth judgment and righteousness in the midst of the earth." ↩

  31. 1Sam 7:10, 1Sam 12:18; Job 40:9; Ps 18:13-14 ↩

  32. Ps 50:1-6, Ps 96:13, Ps 98:9; Eccl 11:9, Eccl 12:14; Matt 25:31-32; John 5:21-22; Rom 14:10-12; 2Cor 5:10; Rev 20:11-15 ↩

  33. 1Sam 12:13, 1Sam 15:28, 1Sam 16:1; 2Sam 7:8, 2Sam 7:13; Ps 2:6, Ps 21:1, Ps 21:7; Isa 32:1, Isa 45:24; Matt 25:34, Matt 28:18 ↩

  34. Ps 89:17, Ps 89:24, Ps 92:10, Ps 148:14; Luke 1:69 ↩

  35. 1Sam 12:3; Ps 2:2, Ps 20:6, Ps 28:8, Ps 45:7; Acts 4:27, Acts 10:38 ↩

  36. 1Sam 2:18, 1Sam 1:28, 1Sam 3:1, 1Sam 3:15 ↩

  37. Hos 4:6-9; Mal 2:1-9 ↩

  38. 1Sam 10:27, 1Sam 25:17; Deut 13:13; Judg 19:22; 1Kgs 21:10, 1Kgs 21:13; 2Cor 6:15 ↩

  39. 1Sam 3:7; Judg 2:10; Jer 2:8, Jer 22:16; John 8:55, John 16:3, John 17:3; Rom 1:21, Rom 1:28-30 ↩

  40. 1Sam 2:29; Exod 29:27-28; Lev 7:34; Isa 56:11; Mal 1:10; 2Pet 2:13-15 ↩

  41. Lev 3:3-5, Lev 3:16; Rom 16:18; Phil 3:19; Jude 1:12 ↩

  42. Heb. as on the day, Lev 3:16, Lev 7:23-25 ↩

  43. Judg 18:25; Neh 5:15; Mic 2:1-2, Mic 3:5; 1Pet 5:2-3 ↩

  44. Gen 6:11, Gen 10:9, Gen 13:13; 2Kgs 21:6; Ps 51:4; Isa 3:8 ↩

  45. Mal 2:8, Mal 2:13; Matt 18:7 ↩

  46. 1Sam 2:11, 1Sam 3:1 ↩

  47. 1Sam 22:18; Exod 28:4; Lev 8:7; 2Sam 6:14 ↩

  48. Meil katon, "a little cloak" or surtout; an upper garment (see note on Exod 28:4). ↩

  49. 1Sam 1:3, 1Sam 1:21; Exod 23:14 ↩

  50. Gen 14:19, Gen 27:27-29; Num 6:23-27; Ruth 2:12, Ruth 4:11 ↩

  51. or, petition which she asked, etc. 1Sam 1:27-28 ↩

  52. The natural place for this verse seems to be before the 1Sam 2:11, after which the 1Sam 2:21 should probably come in; and after the 21st, perhaps the 1Sam 2:26 should follow. ↩

  53. 1Sam 1:19-20; Gen 21:1; Luke 1:68 ↩

  54. 1Sam 2:26, 1Sam 3:19; Judg 13:24; Luke 1:80, Luke 2:40, Luke 2:52 ↩

  55. 1Sam 8:1 ↩

  56. 1Sam 2:13-17; Jer 7:9-10; Ezek 22:26; Hos 4:9-11 ↩

  57. It is probable that these were persons who had some employment about the tabernacle (see note on Exod 38:8). ↩

  58. assembled by troops, Exod 38:8 ↩

  59. 1Kgs 1:6; Acts 9:4, Acts 14:15 ↩

  60. etc. or, I hear evil words of you ↩

  61. Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3, Jer 8:12; Phil 3:19 ↩

  62. Acts 6:3; 2Cor 6:8; 1Tim 3:7; 3John 1:12 ↩

  63. 1Sam 2:17, 1Sam 2:22; Exod 32:21; 1Kgs 13:18-21, 1Kgs 15:30; 2Kgs 10:31; Mal 2:8; Matt 18:7; 2Pet 2:18; Rev 2:20 ↩

  64. or, cry out ↩

  65. Deut 17:8-12, Deut 25:1-3 ↩

  66. 1Sam 3:14; Num 15:30; Ps 51:4, Ps 51:16; Heb 10:26 ↩

  67. 1Tim 2:5; Heb 7:25 ↩

  68. Deut 2:30; Josh 11:20; 2Chr 25:16; Prov 15:10; John 12:39-40 ↩

  69. Rather, therefore, as the particle kee also signifies (see note on Ps 116:10), so Noldius, Ideo voluit Jehova eos interficere, "Therefore Jehovah purposed to destroy them." ↩

  70. 1Sam 2:21 ↩

  71. Prov 3:3; Luke 1:80, Luke 2:40, Luke 2:52; Acts 2:47; Rom 14:18 ↩

  72. 1Sam 9:4; Deut 33:1; Judg 6:8, Judg 13:6; 1Kgs 13:1; 1Tim 6:11; 2Pet 1:21 ↩

  73. Exod 4:14, Exod 4:27 ↩

  74. Exod 28:1, Exod 28:4, Exod 28:6-30, Exod 29:4-37, Exod 39:1-7; Lev 8:7-8; Num 16:5, Num 17:5-8, Num 18:1-7; 2Sam 12:7 ↩

  75. Lev 2:3, Lev 2:10, Lev 6:16, Lev 7:7-8, Lev 7:32, Lev 7:34-35, Lev 10:14-15; Num 5:9-10, Num 18:8, Num 18:19; Deut 18:1-8 ↩

  76. 1Sam 2:13-17; Deut 32:15; Mal 1:12-13 ↩

  77. They disdained to take the part allowed by the law; and would take for themselves what part they pleased, and as much as they pleased. 1Sam 2:13-16 ↩

  78. Deut 12:5-6; Josh 18:1 ↩

  79. By permitting his sons to deal thus with the sacrifices, and to be served first, by taking their part before the fat, etc., was burnt to the Lord, Eli thus honoured his sons above God. Lev 19:15; Deut 33:9; Matt 10:37, Matt 22:16; Luke 14:26; 2Cor 5:16; Jas 3:17 ↩

  80. 1Sam 2:13-16; Isa 56:11-12; Ezek 13:19, Ezek 34:2; Hos 4:8; Mic 3:5; Rom 16:18 ↩

  81. Exod 28:43, Exod 29:9; Num 25:11-13 ↩

  82. Num 35:34 *marg 2Chr 15:2; Jer 18:9-10 ↩

  83. Judg 9:10; Ps 50:23; Prov 3:9-10; Isa 29:13; Dan 4:34; Mal 1:6; John 5:23, John 8:49, John 13:31-32, John 17:4-5 ↩

  84. Ps 18:20, Ps 91:14; John 5:44, John 12:26; 1Cor 4:5; 1Pet 1:7 ↩

  85. Num 11:20; 2Sam 12:9-10; Mal 2:8-9 ↩

  86. That is, I will destroy the strength, power, influence, and authority of thee and thy family; of which the arm of man being the instrument, is used as the emblem. 1Sam 4:2, 1Sam 4:11, 1Sam 4:17-20, 1Sam 14:3, 1Sam 22:17-20; 1Kgs 2:26-27, 1Kgs 2:35; Job 22:9; Ps 37:17; Ezek 30:21-24, Ezek 44:10 ↩

  87. etc. Or, the affliction of the tabernacle, for all the wealth which God would have given Israel. This appears to be the right translation; for, agreeably to this prediction, he did see the tabernacle deprived of the ark, which was its glory, and lived to hear that it was captured by the Philistines. 1Sam 4:4, 1Sam 4:11, 1Sam 4:22; Ps 78:59-64 ↩

  88. Zech 8:4 ↩

  89. 1Sam 22:21-23; 1Kgs 1:7, 1Kgs 1:19, 1Kgs 2:26-27; Matt 2:16-18 ↩

  90. etc. Heb. men ↩

  91. 1Sam 3:12; 1Kgs 13:3, 1Kgs 14:12 ↩

  92. 1Sam 4:11, 1Sam 4:17 ↩

  93. 1Kgs 1:8, 1Kgs 1:45, 1Kgs 2:35; 1Chr 29:22; Ezek 34:23, Ezek 44:15-16; Heb 2:17, Heb 7:26-28 ↩

  94. 1Sam 25:28; Exod 1:21; Num 25:13; 2Sam 7:11, 2Sam 7:27; 1Kgs 11:38; 1Chr 6:8-15; Neh 12:10-11 ↩

  95. Ps 2:2, Ps 18:50 ↩

  96. 1Kgs 2:27; Ezek 44:10-12 ↩

  97. Heb. Join ↩

  98. Heb. somewhat about the priesthood ↩

  99. 1Sam 2:29-30; Mal 1:13 ↩