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. Luk 1:46-56Psa 13:5Isa 12:2-3Php 4:6Psa 92:10Psa 89:17Php 4:4Psa 20:5 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 2Sa 22:32Isa 44:6Psa 86:8Exo 15:111Pe 1:16Jer 10:6Psa 89:8Isa 57:15 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. 1 1Ki 8:39Pro 8:13Pro 24:12Jud 1:15-16Heb 4:12Pro 16:21Sa 16:7Dan 4:30-31 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. Psa 37:15Psa 76:3Php 4:13Psa 46:92Co 12:9Heb 11:34Isa 10:4Psa 37:17 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. Jer 15:9Luk 1:53Psa 113:9Psa 34:101Sa 1:6Isa 54:1Luk 16:251Sa 1:20 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. Deu 32:39Isa 26:192Ki 5:7Job 5:18Jon 2:2-6Rev 1:18Jhn 5:25-29Hos 6:1-2 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. Psa 75:7Deu 8:17-18Job 5:11Jas 4:10Job 1:21Jas 1:9-10Isa 2:12Psa 102:10 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 hath set the world upon them. Psa 113:7-8Dan 2:48Jas 2:5Dan 6:31Sa 15:17Ecc 4:14Rev 1:62Sa 7:8 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. Psa 91:11-12Psa 121:3Psa 33:16-171Pe 1:5Job 5:24Psa 37:28Psa 94:18Psa 97:10 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. Psa 2:9Psa 89:24Exo 15:6Psa 18:13-14Psa 96:131Sa 7:10Psa 20:6Psa 21:7-9
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. 1Sa 2:181Sa 3:11Sa 1:281Sa 1:191Sa 3:15
¶ Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. Rom 1:28-30Jer 2:82Co 6:15Jdg 2:10Rom 1:21Hos 4:6-9Jhn 17:3Jhn 16:3 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; Lev 7:29-34 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 thither. 1Sa 2:29Exo 29:27-28Isa 56:112Pe 2:13-15Lev 7:34Mal 1:10 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. Lev 3:16Lev 3:3-5Php 3:19Rom 16:18Jud 1:12 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, 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 take it by force. 2 Lev 7:23-25Lev 3:161Pe 5:2-3Jdg 18:25Mic 2:1-2Mic 3:5Neh 5:15 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. Mal 2:7-9Gen 13:13Gen 6:11Mal 2:132Ki 21:6Gen 10:9Isa 3:8Mat 18:7
¶ But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. 1Sa 3:1Exo 28:41Sa 2:112Sa 6:141Sa 22:181Ch 15:271Sa 2:28Lev 8:7 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. 1Sa 1:31Sa 1:21Exo 23:14
¶ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. 3 1Sa 1:27-28Luk 2:34Gen 14:19Gen 27:27-29Num 6:23-27Rut 2:12Rut 4:111Sa 1:11 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD. Luk 2:401Sa 3:19Gen 21:11Sa 2:26Jdg 13:24Luk 1:80Luk 1:681Sa 1:19-20
¶ 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. 4 Exo 38:81Sa 2:13-17Jer 7:9-101Sa 8:1Ezk 22:26Hos 4:9-11 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. 5 1Ki 1:6Act 14:15Act 9:4Isa 3:9Jer 3:3Jer 8:12Php 3:19 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress. 6 1Ki 13:18-211Ki 15:301Sa 2:171Sa 2:221Ti 3:72Co 6:82Ki 10:312Pe 2:18 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. 1Sa 3:14Heb 10:26Jos 11:20Num 15:301Ti 2:5Pro 15:10Heb 7:252Ch 25:16 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men. Luk 2:52Luk 2:401Sa 2:21Act 2:47Luk 1:80Rom 14:18Pro 3:3
¶ And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? Jdg 13:61Ki 13:1Deu 33:1Exo 4:14-16Exo 4:271Sa 9:41Ti 6:112Pe 1:21 And did I 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 give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? Exo 28:1Lev 8:7-8Num 18:19Exo 28:4Lev 10:14-15Lev 2:10Lev 2:3Lev 6:16 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? Mat 10:371Sa 2:13-17Deu 32:15Ezk 34:2Luk 14:26Mal 1:12-13Deu 12:5-6Mic 3:5 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Jhn 12:26Jer 18:9-10Pro 3:9-10Mal 1:62Ch 15:2Isa 29:13Psa 50:23Psa 91:14 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. 1Sa 22:17-201Ki 2:26-271Ki 2:351Sa 14:31Sa 4:11-201Sa 4:2Ezk 30:21-24Ezk 44:10 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. 7 Zec 8:41Sa 4:11Psa 78:59-641Ki 2:26-271Sa 4:221Sa 4:4 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. 8 1Ki 2:26-271Ki 1:191Ki 1:71Sa 22:21-23Mat 2:16-18 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. 1Sa 4:111Ki 13:31Sa 4:171Ki 14:121Sa 3:12 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever. 2Sa 7:271Ki 11:382Sa 7:111Sa 25:28Heb 7:26-28Psa 18:501Ch 29:221Ch 6:8-15 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine 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. 9 10 1Ki 2:271Sa 2:29-30Ezk 44:10-12Mal 1:13