1 Samuel 2 (NET)

1 Samuel 2:1¹Hannah prayed, “My heart has rejoiced in the Lord; my horn has been raised high because of the Lord. I have loudly denounced my enemies. Indeed I rejoice in your deliverance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:46-56Ps 13:5Isa 12:2-3Phil 4:6Ps 92:10Ps 89:17Phil 4:4Ps 20:5Ps 35:9Ps 9:14

1 Samuel 2:2²No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 22:32Isa 44:6Ps 86:8Exod 15:111 Pet 1:16Jer 10:6Ps 89:8Isa 57:15Deut 3:24Isa 43:10-11

1 Samuel 2:3³Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly. Proud talk should not come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:39Prov 8:13Prov 24:12Jude 1:15-16Heb 4:12Prov 16:21 Sam 16:7Dan 4:30-31Isa 37:23Job 31:6

1 Samuel 2:4⁴The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumbled have taken on strength.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:15Ps 76:3Phil 4:13Ps 46:92 Cor 12:9Heb 11:34Isa 10:4Ps 37:172 Cor 4:9-10Jer 37:10

1 Samuel 2:5⁵The well fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:9Luke 1:53Ps 113:9Ps 34:101 Sam 1:6Isa 54:1Luke 16:251 Sam 1:20Gal 4:27

1 Samuel 2:6⁶The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:39Isa 26:192 Kgs 5:7Job 5:18Jonah 2:2-6Rev 1:18John 5:25-29Hos 6:1-2John 11:251 Sam 20:3

1 Samuel 2:7⁷The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 75:7Job 5:11Deut 8:17-18Jas 4:10Job 1:21Jas 1:9-10Isa 2:12Ps 102:10

1 Samuel 2:8⁸He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes— he bestows on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord — he placed the world on them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 113:7-8Dan 2:48Jas 2:5Dan 6:31 Sam 15:17Eccl 4:14Rev 1:62 Sam 7:8Rev 22:5Rev 5:10

1 Samuel 2:9⁹He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:11-12Ps 121:3Ps 33:16-171 Pet 1:5Job 5:24Ps 37:28Ps 94:18Ps 97:10Zech 4:6Deut 33:3

1 Samuel 2:10¹⁰The Lord shatters his adversaries; he thunders against them from the heavens. The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and exalt the power of his anointed one.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:9Ps 89:24Exod 15:6Ps 18:13-14Ps 96:131 Sam 7:10Ps 20:6Ps 21:7-9Ps 92:9-10Ps 98:9

1 Samuel 2:11¹¹Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. The boy Samuel was serving the Lord with the favor of Eli the priest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:181 Sam 3:11 Sam 1:281 Sam 1:191 Sam 3:15

1 Samuel 2:12¹²But the sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not acknowledge the Lord ’s authority.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:28-30Jer 2:82 Cor 6:15Judg 2:10Rom 1:21Hos 4:6-9John 17:3John 16:3John 8:55Mal 2:1-9

1 Samuel 2:13¹³This was the priests’ routine with the people. Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand, just as the meat was boiling.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 7:29-34

1 Samuel 2:14¹⁴He would jab it into the basin, kettle, cauldron, or pot. Everything that the fork would bring up the priest would take for himself. This is how they used to treat all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:29Exod 29:27-28Isa 56:112 Pet 2:13-15Lev 7:34Mal 1:10

1 Samuel 2:15¹⁵Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice, “Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 3:16Lev 3:3-5Phil 3:19Rom 16:18Jude 1:12

1 Samuel 2:16¹⁶If the individual said to him, “They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” then he would say, “No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 7:23-25Lev 3:161 Pet 5:2-3Judg 18:25Mic 2:1-2Mic 3:5Neh 5:15

1 Samuel 2:17¹⁷The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord ’s sight, for they treated the Lord ’s offering with contempt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 2:7-9Gen 13:13Gen 6:11Mal 2:132 Kgs 21:6Gen 10:9Isa 3:8Matt 18:7Ps 51:4

1 Samuel 2:18¹⁸Now Samuel was ministering with the favor of the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:1Exod 28:41 Sam 2:112 Sam 6:141 Sam 22:181 Chr 15:271 Sam 2:28Lev 8:7

1 Samuel 2:19¹⁹His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it to him from time to time when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:31 Sam 1:21Exod 23:14

1 Samuel 2:20²⁰Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying, “May the Lord establish descendants for you from this woman in place of the one that she dedicated to the Lord.” Then they would go to their home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:27-28Luke 2:34Gen 14:19Gen 27:27-29Num 6:23-27Ruth 2:12Ruth 4:111 Sam 1:11

1 Samuel 2:21²¹And indeed the Lord attended to Hannah. She got pregnant and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew up before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 2:401 Sam 3:19Gen 21:11 Sam 2:26Judg 13:24Luke 1:80Luke 1:681 Sam 1:19-20Luke 2:52

1 Samuel 2:22²²Eli was very old. And he would hear about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to go to bed with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 38:81 Sam 2:13-171 Sam 8:1Ezek 22:26Hos 4:9-11Jer 7:9-10

1 Samuel 2:23²³So he said to them, “Why do you do these things, these evil things that I hear about from all these people?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 1:6Acts 14:15Acts 9:4Isa 3:9Jer 3:3Jer 8:12Phil 3:19

1 Samuel 2:24²⁴No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord ’s people is not good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:18-211 Kgs 15:301 Sam 2:171 Sam 2:221 Tim 3:72 Cor 6:82 Kgs 10:312 Pet 2:183 John 1:12Acts 6:3

1 Samuel 2:25²⁵If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father. Indeed the Lord had decided to kill them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:14Heb 10:26Josh 11:20Num 15:301 Tim 2:5Prov 15:10Heb 7:252 Chr 25:16Deut 1:17John 12:39-40

1 Samuel 2:26²⁶However, the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 2:52Luke 2:401 Sam 2:21Acts 2:47Luke 1:80Rom 14:18Prov 3:3

1 Samuel 2:27²⁷Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘I plainly revealed myself to your ancestor’s house when they were slaves to the house of Pharaoh in Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 13:61 Kgs 13:1Deut 33:1Exod 4:14-16Exod 4:271 Sam 9:41 Tim 6:112 Pet 1:21Exod 12:1Exod 12:43

1 Samuel 2:28²⁸I chose your ancestor from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 28:1Lev 8:7-8Num 18:19Exod 28:4Lev 10:14-15Lev 2:10Lev 2:3Lev 6:16Lev 7:32Lev 7:34-35

1 Samuel 2:29²⁹Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:37Deut 32:151 Sam 2:13-17Luke 14:26Deut 12:5-6Ezek 34:2Mal 1:12-13Deut 33:9Hos 4:8Isa 56:11-12

1 Samuel 2:30³⁰“Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:26Jer 18:9-10Prov 3:9-10Mal 1:62 Chr 15:2Isa 29:13Ps 50:23Ps 91:14Ps 18:20Exod 29:9

1 Samuel 2:31³¹In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:17-201 Kgs 2:26-271 Kgs 2:351 Sam 14:31 Sam 4:11-201 Sam 4:2Ezek 30:21-24Ezek 44:10Job 22:9Ps 37:17

1 Samuel 2:32³²You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 8:41 Sam 4:11Ps 78:59-641 Kgs 2:26-271 Sam 4:221 Sam 4:4

1 Samuel 2:33³³Any man of yours that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause his eyes to fail and will cause him grief. All those born to your family will die by the sword of man.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:26-271 Kgs 1:191 Kgs 1:71 Sam 22:21-23Matt 2:16-18

1 Samuel 2:34³⁴This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 4:111 Kgs 13:31 Sam 4:171 Kgs 14:121 Sam 3:12

1 Samuel 2:35³⁵Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a lasting dynasty, and he will serve my chosen one for all time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:271 Kgs 11:382 Sam 7:111 Sam 25:28Heb 7:26-28Ps 18:501 Chr 29:221 Chr 6:8-151 Kgs 1:451 Kgs 1:8

1 Samuel 2:36³⁶Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, “Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:271 Sam 2:29-30Ezek 44:10-12Mal 1:13