Hannah prayed, and said, Luk 1:46-56Psa 13:5Isa 12:2-3Php 4:6Psa 92:10Psa 89:17Php 4:4Psa 20:5
“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.
There is no one as holy as the LORD, 2Sa 22:32Isa 44:6Psa 86:8Exo 15:111Pe 1:16Jer 10:6Psa 89:8Isa 57:15
for there is no one besides you,
nor is there any rock like our God.
“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. 1Ki 8:39Pro 8:13Pro 24:12Jud 1:15-16Heb 4:12Pro 16:21Sa 16:7Dan 4:30-31
Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth,
for the LORD is a God of knowledge.
By him actions are weighed.
“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Psa 37:15Psa 76:3Php 4:13Psa 46:92Co 12:9Heb 11:34Isa 10:4Psa 37:17
Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Jer 15:9Luk 1:53Psa 113:9Psa 34:101Sa 1:6Isa 54:1Luk 16:251Sa 1:20
Those who were hungry are satisfied.
Yes, the barren has borne seven.
She who has many children languishes.
“The LORD kills and makes alive. Deu 32:39Isa 26:192Ki 5:7Job 5:18Jon 2:2-6Rev 1:18Jhn 5:25-29Hos 6:1-2
He brings down to Sheol 1 and brings up.
The LORD makes poor and makes rich. Psa 75:7Deu 8:17-18Job 5:11Jas 4:10Job 1:21Jas 1:9-10Isa 2:12Psa 102:10
He brings low, he also lifts up.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. Psa 113:7-8Dan 2:48Jas 2:5Dan 6:31Sa 15:17Ecc 4:14Rev 1:62Sa 7:8
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill
to make them sit with princes
and inherit the throne of glory.
For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s.
He has set the world on them.
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, Psa 91:11-12Psa 121:3Psa 33:16-171Pe 1:5Job 5:24Psa 37:28Psa 94:18Psa 97:10
but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness;
for no man will prevail by strength.
Those who strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces. Psa 2:9Psa 89:24Exo 15:6Psa 18:13-14Psa 96:131Sa 7:10Psa 20:6Psa 21:7-9
He will thunder against them in the sky.
“The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to his king,
and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD before Eli the priest. 1Sa 2:181Sa 3:11Sa 1:281Sa 1:191Sa 3:15
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD. Rom 1:28-30Jer 2:82Co 6:15Jdg 2:10Rom 1:21Hos 4:6-9Jhn 17:3Jhn 16:3 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; Lev 7:29-34 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh. 1Sa 2:29Exo 29:27-28Isa 56:112Pe 2:13-15Lev 7:34Mal 1:10 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.” Lev 3:16Lev 3:3-5Php 3:19Rom 16:18Jud 1:12
If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.” Lev 7:23-25Lev 3:161Pe 5:2-3Jdg 18:25Mic 2:1-2Mic 3:5Neh 5:15 The sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men despised the LORD’s offering. 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, clothed 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 robe, 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 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May the LORD give you offspring 2 from this woman for the petition which was asked of the LORD.” Then they went to their own home. 1Sa 1:27-28Luk 2:34Gen 14:19Gen 27:27-29Num 6:23-27Rut 2:12Rut 4:111Sa 1:11 The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. 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 he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Exo 38:81Sa 2:13-17Jer 7:9-101Sa 8:1Ezk 22:26Hos 4:9-11 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people. 1Ki 1:6Act 14:15Act 9:4Isa 3:9Jer 3:3Jer 8:12Php 3:19 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey. 1Ki 13:18-211Ki 15:301Sa 2:171Sa 2:221Ti 3:72Co 6:82Ki 10:312Pe 2:18 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD intended to kill them. 1Sa 3:14Heb 10:26Jos 11:20Num 15:301Ti 2:5Pro 15:10Heb 7:252Ch 25:16
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD and also with men. Luk 2:52Luk 2:401Sa 2:21Act 2:47Luk 1:80Rom 14:18Pro 3:3
A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house? Jdg 13:61Ki 13:1Deu 33:1Exo 4:14-16Exo 4:271Sa 9:41Ti 6:112Pe 1:21 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? Exo 28:1Lev 8:7-8Num 18:19Exo 28:4Lev 10:14-15Lev 2:10Lev 2:3Lev 6:16 Why do you kick 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 Israel my people?’ Mat 10:371Sa 2:13-17Deu 32:15Ezk 34:2Luk 14:26Mal 1:12-13Deu 12:5-6Mic 3:5 “Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed. Jhn 12:26Jer 18:9-10Pro 3:9-10Mal 1:62Ch 15:2Isa 29:13Psa 50:23Psa 91:14 Behold, 3 the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house. 1Sa 22:17-201Ki 2:26-271Ki 2:351Sa 14:31Sa 4:11-201Sa 4:2Ezk 30:21-24Ezk 44:10 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever. Zec 8:41Sa 4:11Psa 78:59-641Ki 2:26-271Sa 4:221Sa 4:4 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes 4 and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age. 1Ki 2:26-271Ki 1:191Ki 1:71Sa 22:21-23Mat 2:16-18 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die. 1Sa 4:111Ki 13:31Sa 4:171Ki 14:121Sa 3:12 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever. 2Sa 7:271Ki 11:382Sa 7:111Sa 25:28Heb 7:26-28Psa 18:501Ch 29:221Ch 6:8-15 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’” 1Ki 2:271Sa 2:29-30Ezk 44:10-12Mal 1:13