Rotherham(i)
20 And Eli used to bless Elkanah and his wife, and to say––Yahweh give thee seed of this woman, instead of the loan that hath been lent unto Yahweh. So they went their way to his own place.
21 And Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bare three sons, and two daughters. Thus did the boy Samuel grow up with Yahweh.
22 Now, Eli, was very old,––but he used to hear all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how they even lay with the women who did service, at the opening of the tent of meeting.
23 So he said to them, Wherefore should ye do such things as these? for I keep hearing of your wicked doings, from all these people.
24 Nay, my sons! for it is no good report that I do hear: leading into transgression the people of Yahweh.
25 If one man sin against another, God will interpose, but, if, against Yahweh, a man sin, who will intercede, for him? But they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, for Yahweh was pleased to put them to death.
26 But, the boy Samuel, went on growing in stature, and in favour,––both with Yahweh, and also with men.
27 And there came a man of God, unto Eli,––and said unto him––Thus, saith Yahweh, I, did indeed reveal myself, unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt, as servants unto the house of Pharaoh; 28 choosing him out of all the tribes of Israel unto myself, to minister as priest, to offer upon mine altar, to perfume with incense to bear an ephod before me,––Therefore gave I unto the house of thy father all the altar–flames of the sons of Israel. 29 Wherefore have ye been kicking at my sacrifices, and my presents, which I commanded, to serve for a home,––and shouldest have honoured thy sons more than me: fattening yourselves, with the first of every present of Israel, before me? 30 Hence, the oracle of Yahweh God of Israel, I, said, that, thy house, and the house of thy father, should go to and fro in my presence, unto times age–abiding: But, now, (is the oracle of Yahweh)––Be it far from me! For, them who honour me, will I honour, but, they who despise me, shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Lo! days are coming, when I will hew off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father,––that there shall be no elder in thy house; 32 But thou shalt descry distress at home, in all that shall gladden Israel,––and there shall not be an elder in thine own house, all the days. 33 But, any man of thine whom I may not cut off from mine altar, it shall be––to consume his eyes, and grieve his soul; Howbeit, all the multitude of thy house, shall die, by the sword of men. 34 And, this, for thee is the sign, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas,––In one day, shall they, both of them, die;
27 And there came a man of God, unto Eli,––and said unto him––Thus, saith Yahweh, I, did indeed reveal myself, unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt, as servants unto the house of Pharaoh; 28 choosing him out of all the tribes of Israel unto myself, to minister as priest, to offer upon mine altar, to perfume with incense to bear an ephod before me,––Therefore gave I unto the house of thy father all the altar–flames of the sons of Israel. 29 Wherefore have ye been kicking at my sacrifices, and my presents, which I commanded, to serve for a home,––and shouldest have honoured thy sons more than me: fattening yourselves, with the first of every present of Israel, before me? 30 Hence, the oracle of Yahweh God of Israel, I, said, that, thy house, and the house of thy father, should go to and fro in my presence, unto times age–abiding: But, now, (is the oracle of Yahweh)––Be it far from me! For, them who honour me, will I honour, but, they who despise me, shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Lo! days are coming, when I will hew off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father,––that there shall be no elder in thy house; 32 But thou shalt descry distress at home, in all that shall gladden Israel,––and there shall not be an elder in thine own house, all the days. 33 But, any man of thine whom I may not cut off from mine altar, it shall be––to consume his eyes, and grieve his soul; Howbeit, all the multitude of thy house, shall die, by the sword of men. 34 And, this, for thee is the sign, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas,––In one day, shall they, both of them, die;