1 Samuel Cross References - BBE

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: ² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children. ³ Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there. ⁴ And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast: ⁵ But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children. ⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; ⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food. ⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons? ⁹ So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord. ¹⁰ And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord. ¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut. ¹² Now while she was a long time in prayer before the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth. ¹³ For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine. ¹⁴ And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you. ¹⁵ And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord. ¹⁶ Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain. ¹⁷ Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him. ¹⁸ And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad. ¹⁹ And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind. ²⁰ Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him. ²¹ And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath. ²² But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever. ²³ And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast. ²⁴ Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young. ²⁵ And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli. ²⁶ And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side: ²⁷ My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request: ²⁸ So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

¹ And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

¹⁹ And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

²³ And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

²⁵ And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.

²⁹ And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

¹ And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar. ² And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

¹⁹ For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

¹⁸ For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹ And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

⁷ And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old. ⁸ And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

²⁶ And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord;

⁴² And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey, ⁴³ Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says, ⁴⁴ Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son. ⁴⁵ And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

⁴⁸ And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

⁵² And at these words, Abraham's servant went down on his face and gave praise to the Lord.

²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

²⁰ Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,

²³ And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman. ²⁵ And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me? ²⁶ And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older. ²⁷ Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife. ²⁹ And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman. ³⁰ Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years. ³¹ Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

³¹ Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children. ³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me.

³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me. ³³ Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. ³⁴ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. ³⁵ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

² But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. ⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. ⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher. ¹⁴ Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits. ¹⁵ But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits. ¹⁶ In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night. ¹⁷ And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar. ¹⁹ And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son. ²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun. ²¹ After that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name Dinah. ²² Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.

⁵ And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

⁸ And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

¹⁵ And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

⁵¹ And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house. ⁵² And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

¹⁵ But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

³⁴ And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.

²² To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.

¹⁰ And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

¹⁰ And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

²² And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

³¹ And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

⁶ Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

¹⁴ Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

¹⁷ Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

²³ Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁴ And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;

¹⁵ And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning.

¹⁸ And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

²³ No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

⁵ All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

⁸ All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

¹¹ And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.

⁹ Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil. ¹⁰ And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

² Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

³ If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking; ⁴ If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force. ⁵ But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father. ⁶ And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought; ⁷ If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

⁷ If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force. ⁸ But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

⁸ But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness. ⁹ But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force. ¹⁰ If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband, ¹¹ And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

⁵ But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

⁵ But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; ⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks; ⁷ There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

¹¹ Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

¹¹ Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord; ¹² And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you. ¹³ Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see: ¹⁴ But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

¹⁷ In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering; ¹⁸ But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

¹³ That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

¹¹ Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

¹⁶ Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife: ¹⁶ Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife: ¹⁷ But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.

⁷ Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.

¹⁷ Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only, ¹⁸ For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) the woodland and cut down (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) its outskirts will be yours (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) strong.

¹ And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.

¹² Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war. ¹³ And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, ¹⁴ And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel. ¹⁵ And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them, ¹⁶ This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord? ¹⁷ Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord, ¹⁸ That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel. ¹⁹ But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

³³ Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

³⁰ Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

³⁰ And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,

⁵ And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;

² Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

⁵ For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

¹ Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.

⁶ And the priest said to them, Go in peace: your way is guided by the Lord.

³¹ And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

² And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

²⁰ And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

¹³ Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

¹⁵ He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

³ Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

⁹ So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord.

¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut. ¹² Now while she was a long time in prayer before the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth. ¹³ For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine.

¹⁷ Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him.

¹⁹ And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.

²¹ And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath. ²² But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

²⁸ So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

¹¹ Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest. ¹² Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord. ¹³ And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth; ¹⁴ This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. ¹⁵ And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force. ¹⁷ And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings. ¹⁸ But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.

³⁴ And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.

¹ Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

³ And the light of God was still burning, while Samuel was sleeping in the Temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,

¹³ And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.

¹⁵ And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.

³ And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us. ⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

¹¹ And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.

¹⁷ And the man said, Israel went in flight from the Philistines, and there has been great destruction among the people, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken. ¹⁸ And at these words about the ark of God, Eli, falling back off his seat by the side of the doorway into the town, came down on the earth so that his neck was broken and death overtook him, for he was an old man and of great weight. He had been judging Israel for forty years.

⁵ And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.

²⁶ And about dawn Samuel said to Saul on the roof, Get up so that I may send you away. So Saul got up, and he and Samuel went out together.

²⁷ But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

⁵⁵ And when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, On your life, O king, I have no idea.

³ But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.

²⁵ Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

³⁵ Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

⁷ So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry.

² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

²⁵ And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!

¹¹ And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.

¹⁶ So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night. ¹⁷ And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

³⁶ And while he was talking, the king's sons came, with weeping and loud cries: and the king and all his servants were weeping bitterly.

¹⁹ And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:

¹² It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

⁸ Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

²⁶ And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.

⁴ Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho.

⁶ Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on together.

³⁰ But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.

¹⁹ And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.

¹² And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

¹⁰ And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

²⁵ And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶ Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.

³⁴ The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

⁴ Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.

² If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! ³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

¹⁴ He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

¹¹ So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

² How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

¹⁸ He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

¹ My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

¹ My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry. ² I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

¹⁴ If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

²³ If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

²¹ He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

¹⁶ But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

³ My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

⁷ But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.

⁹ The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.

³ May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; Selah. ⁴ May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect. ⁵ We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

⁹ But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

⁶ Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

¹ Of David. To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

⁷ Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

¹⁸ Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

⁴ Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

⁴ Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

¹⁷ In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

³ How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

⁸ Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. Selah.

¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰ Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.

⁶⁰ So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

² I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.

⁴ The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

¹ I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer. ² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days. ³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow. ⁴ Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble. ⁵ The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

⁵ I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

¹⁴⁷ Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

¹ A Song of the going up. Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles; ² How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,

²³ Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

² I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble. ³ When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

⁶ My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. Selah.

²⁴ Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

¹⁵ A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

⁴ When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

⁷ Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

⁷ Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

¹⁵ What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

²⁶ Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:

¹ Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

⁶ For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

¹² But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer: ¹⁴ For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

¹⁷ But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

¹⁰ Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.

¹⁹ Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

¹⁵ The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.

²¹ And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.

¹ Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. ² For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you. ³ And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

⁷ Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth. ³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

⁸ He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

¹⁹ But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

⁵⁷ And in the evening, there came a man of wealth from Arimathaea, Joseph by name, who was a disciple of Jesus:

³⁵ And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

³⁴ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be free from your disease.

⁷ And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

²² And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord

³⁶ And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher {\I she was very old, and after seven years of married life

⁴¹ And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

⁴¹ And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. ⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.

⁴⁸ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.

⁸ I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of. ⁹ And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you. ¹⁰ For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

²⁷ And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

¹⁵ And they took their children to him, so that he might put his hands on them: but when the disciples saw it, they said sharp words to them ¹⁶ But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

⁴⁴ And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

⁴² And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.

²⁴ Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

¹³ They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I have no knowledge where they have put him.

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here, say where you have put him and I will take him away.

¹³ But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.

²⁶ And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

¹³ Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁷ Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

²⁵ And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.

³¹ Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

⁶ Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

² Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;

¹⁴ And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers.

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

¹⁶ So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

¹⁵ And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.