1 Samuel 1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ There was a man of Armathaim-Sipha, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkana, son of Jeremeel, son of Eliu, son of Thoke, at Nasib -Ephraim. ² And he had two wives. The name of the one was Anna, and the name of the other Phennana. ³ And Phennana had children; but Anna had not a child. And this man went up, year after year, out of his city; from Armathaim, to worship, and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabbaoth, at Selom; for Eli and his two sons, Ophni and Phineas, the priests of the Lord, were there. ⁴ And his custom was, on the day when Elkana had offered sacrifices, he gave portions to his wife Phennana, and her children, ⁵ and to Anna he gave one portion, because she had not a child. Nevertheless, Elkana loved Anna more than the other, though the Lord had shut up her womb. ⁶ But because the Lord had not given her a child, such was her affliction and anxiety on the account of this, that she became disconsolate, because the Lord had shut up her womb, so as not to give her a child. ⁷ Thus he acted, year after year, when he went up to the house of the Lord. And when she was become disconsolate, and was weeping, and did not eat, ⁸ Elkana her husband said to her, Anna! and she said to him, Here, my lord. And he said to her, What is the matter with thee, that thou weepest? And why dost thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? ⁹ Thereupon Anna rose up, after they had eaten at Selom, and stood before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat at 4 the door posts of the temple of the Lord. ¹⁰ And she being in bitterness of soul, prayed to the Lord, and wept sore. ¹¹ And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, Adonai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented liquor, nor shall a razor come on his head. ¹² And while she was continuing her prayer before the Lord, Eli the priest observed her mouth. ¹³ When she spoke in her heart, her lips moved, but her voice was not heard, so Eli thought that she was drunk. ¹⁴ Thereupon Eli's servant said to her, How long wilt thou be drunk? Take away thy wine, and depart from the presence of the Lord, ¹⁵ And Anna answered, and said, No, my lord. I am a woman in deep affliction. I have not drunk wine nor strong drink; but am pouring out my soul before the Lord. ¹⁶ Count not thy handmaid a daughter of wickedness, because, out of the abundance of my deep meditation, I have continued till now. ¹⁷ Then Eli in reply said to her, Go in peace. May the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him. ¹⁸ And she said, Thy servant hath found favour in thy sight. Then the woman went away, and when she came to her lodging, she ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was no more dejected. ¹⁹ And they arose early in the morning, and worshipped the Lord, and set out on their journey. And when Elkana came to his house at Armathaim, he knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her, ²⁰ and she conceived, and at the appointed time bore a son, and called his name Samuel, because, said she, I asked him of the Lord God of Sabbaoth. ²¹ And when the man Elkana went up, with his household, to offer at Selom his annual sacrifice, and his vows, and all the tythes of his land, ²² Anna did not go up with him; for she said to her husband, Not till the boy can go up after I have weaned him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide there continually. ²³ And Elkana her husband said to her, Do what seemeth good in thine eyes. Stay till thou hast weaned him. And may the Lord establish what hath proceeded from thy mouth. So the woman staid at home, and suckled the child. ²⁴ And when she had weaned him, she went up with her husband to Selom, with a bull of three years old, and bread, and an epha of fine flour, and a nebal of wine, and came to the house of the Lord at Selom, and the boy with them. ²⁵ And when they had presented him before the Lord, and his father had slain the victim, which he offered yearly to the Lord, he presented the boy, and slew the bull, and Anna, the mother of the child, presented him before Eli, and said, ²⁶ Attend to me, my lord! As thy soul liveth, I am the woman who stood in thy presence with thee when I prayed to the Lord. ²⁷ For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath granted me the petition which I asked of him; ²⁸ therefore I dedicate him to the Lord, all the days of his life, as a loan to the Lord. Then she said,

¹ And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from God."

¹⁹ And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Aria; and the name of the second Sella.

²³ And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella, "Hearken to my voice, ye wives of Lamech, "Listen attentively to my words: For have I slain a man that I should be wounded, "And a young man that I should be hurt?"

²⁵ And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, "For God hath raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew."

²⁹ and called his name Noe, saying "This child will cause us to cease from our works and from the toils of our hands and from the earth which the Lord hath cursed.

¹ Now God had remembered Noe and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the fowls and all the reptiles which creep, even all that were with him in the ark; and God brought a wind over the earth and aswaged the water.

¹ Still Sara, the wife of Abram, did not bear him children; so having an Egyptian servant whose name was Agar,

¹ Still Sara, the wife of Abram, did not bear him children; so having an Egyptian servant whose name was Agar, ² Sara said to Abram, Behold the Lord hath shut me up that I may not bear. Go in therefore to my maid that I may have children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

¹¹ Furthermore the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ismael; for the Lord hath hearkened to thy affliction.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him.

¹⁸ For the Lord had shut up every womb in Abimelech family on the account of Sarah the wife of Abraham. Chapter 21

¹ Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken,

⁷ And she said, Who will tell Abraham that Sarah is suckling a child; that I have born a son in my old age! ⁸ And the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great entertainment on the day his son Isaak was weaned.

²⁶ Then the man being satisfied, worshipped the Lord

⁴² Now, when I came to day to the well, I said, Lord the God of my master Abraham, if thou prosperest the journey in which I am now engaged, ⁴³ Behold I have stopped at this well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water, Let the virgin to whom I shall say, Let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher; ⁴⁴ and who shall say to me, Drink thou, and I will draw water for thy camels; Let her be the wife whom the Lord hath provided for his servant Isaak; and by this I shall know that thon hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraham. ⁴⁵ And before I had finished this my address in thought, straightway Rebekka came with the pitcher on her shoulder and went down to the well and drew water, and I said to her, Let me drink.

⁴⁸ and being well pleased, I worshipped the Lord and blessed the Lord the God of my master Abraham, who had prospered me in the right way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

⁵² And when Abraham's servant heard these words, he worshipped the Lord on the ground.

²¹ And Isaak intreated the Lord for Rebekka his wife because she was barren, and the Lord hearkened to him; And Rebekka his wife conceived

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow saying, If the Lord God will be with me and watch over me in the way in which I am going and give me bread to eat and raiment to clothe me

²³ And in the evening he took his daughter Leia and brought her to Jacob; and Jacob went in unto her. ²⁴ And Laban gave his maid Zelpha to his daughter Leia, to be her handmaid. ²⁵ And in the morning, when Jacob saw it was Leia, he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done to me? Did I not serve thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me? ²⁶ And Laban answered, It is not customary with us in this place to give the younger before the elder. ²⁷ Finish therefore this one's week, and I will give thee the other for the service which thou mayst perform for me yet other seven years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so. And when he had finished this one's week, Laban gave him to wife his daughter Rachel; ²⁹ and Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, his maid Balla to be her handmaid. ³⁰ And Jacob went in unto Rachel, and loved Rachel more than Leia, and served him other seven years. ³¹ Now when the Lord God saw that Leia was slighted, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

³¹ Now when the Lord God saw that Leia was slighted, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. ³² And Leia conceived and bore Jacob a son and called his name Reuben; saying, Because the Lord hath seen my affliction; therefore he hath given me a son. Now therefore my husband will love me.

³² And Leia conceived and bore Jacob a son and called his name Reuben; saying, Because the Lord hath seen my affliction; therefore he hath given me a son. Now therefore my husband will love me. ³³ And she conceived again, and bore to Jacob another son, and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I am slighted, he hath given me this son also; so she called his name Symeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now will my husband abide with me for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Now for this also I will praise the Lord, therefore she called his name Judas. Then she ceased from bearing.

² And Jacob was angry with Rachel and said to her, Am I in God's stead, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?

⁶ And Rachel said, God hath judged for me and hath heard my voice and given me a son: for this cause she called his name Dan. ⁷ And Balla, Rachel"s maid conceived again and bore to Jacob another son. ⁸ Whereupon Rachel said, God helped me when I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed. So she called his name Nephthaleim. ⁹ Now when Leia saw that she had ceased from bearing, she also took her maid Zelpha and gave her to Jacob for a wife, and he went in unto her. ¹⁰ And Zelpha, Leia's maid conceived and bore Jacob a son. ¹¹ Whereupon Leia said, Good luck. So she called his name Gad. ¹² And Zelpha, Leia's maid conceived again and bore Jacob another son. ¹³ Upon which Leia said, Happy am I; for the women will call me happy. So she called his name Aser. ¹⁴ And at the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found in the field mandragore apples and brought them to his mother Leia. And Rachel said to her sister Leia, Give me some of thy son's mandragores. ¹⁵ And Leia said, Is it not enough for thee that thou hast taken my husband? wouldst thou take also my son's mandragores? And Rachel said, Shall I not have them on this condition? Let him be with thee to night for thy son's mandragores. ¹⁶ So when Jacob was coming from the field in the evening, Leia went out to meet him and said, Thou must come in to me today; for I have hired thee for my son's mandragores. And he lay with her that night, ¹⁷ and God hearkened to Leia and she having conceived bore to Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ And Leia said, God hath given me my reward for having given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar, that is Reward. ¹⁹ And Leia conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. ²⁰ Whereupon Leia said, God hath now endowed me with a good dowry. My husband will make choice of me, for I have born him six sons. So she called his name Zabulon. ²¹ And after this she bore a daughter and called her name Deina. ²² Now God had remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

⁵ And I have got oxen and asses and sheep and men servants and maid servants. And I have sent to give notice to my lord Esau, that thy servant may find favour in thy sight.

⁸ he said, What is the meaning of all those droves which I met? And Jacob said, That thy servant may find favour in the sight of thee my lord.

¹⁵ Then Esau said, Let me leave with thee some of the people who are with me. To which Jacob replied, What need is there? It is sufficient that I have found favour in the sight of thee, my lord.

⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of his first born Manasses, because God hath made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

¹⁵ By this you shall be proved. By the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence unless your youngest brother come hither.

³⁴ And when they received their several messes from him, the mess of Benjamin was five times larger than any of theirs. And when they had drank and been plentifully regaled with him

²² And to all he gave two suits of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of gold and five distinguished suits of raiment.

¹⁰ And when they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the bank of the Jordan, they mourned for him with a very great and sore lamentation. And he continued the mourning for his father seven days.

¹⁰ and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water.

²² And his wife conceived and bore him a son; And Moses called his name Gersam, saying, Because I am a sojourner in a strange land.

⁶ his master shall bring him to God's court of Justice and there lead him to the door; to the door post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him for ever.

¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me;

¹⁷ Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God;

²³ Three times a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord the God of Israel.

⁴ and the two kidneys with the suet on them, and that on the flanks, and with the kidneys he shall take off the lobe of the liver.

¹⁵ And the flesh of the victim of praise and thanksgiving shall be for himself, and shall be eaten on the day it is offered. They shall not leave any of it till the morning.

¹⁸ In addition to a sister thou shalt not take to wife a rival sister to uncover her nakedness while her sister is still living.

²³ Now the land must not be sold forever; for the land is mine. Because you are strangers, and sojourners before me,

⁵ such a one shall abstain all the days of the purification. A razor shall not come upon his head, until the days which he hath vowed to the Lord be fulfilled. Being hallowed, he shall let the hair of his head grow

⁸ All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord.

¹¹ and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him for the failures of which he hath been guilty by the dead.

⁹ he who offereth must bring, with the young bull, three tenths of fine flour mixed up with the half of an hin of oil, for a sacrifice; ¹⁰ and the half of an hin of wine for a libation, as an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord.

² whereupon Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will devote them and their cities to destruction.

³ And if a woman vow to the Lord, or bind herself with a solemn promise, in her father's house, in her youth; ⁴ and her father hear her vows, and her promises with which she hath bound her soul, and hold his peace at her; all her vows, and all the promises with which she bound her soul, shall stand. ⁵ They shall be binding on her. But if her father expressly disapprove on the day he heareth her vows and the promises, with which she hath bound her soul, they shall not stand. And the Lord will acquit her because her father hath disallowed her. ⁶ And if she be married, and vows be upon her; according to the opening of her lips; with what promises soever she may have bound her soul, ⁷ if her husband shall hear, and hold his peace at her on the day when he heareth, so shall all her vows stand, and the promises shall stand with which she hath bound her soul.

⁷ if her husband shall hear, and hold his peace at her on the day when he heareth, so shall all her vows stand, and the promises shall stand with which she hath bound her soul. ⁸ But if her husband expressly disallow her on the day when he shall hear, none of her vows, and none of the obligations with which she hath bound her soul, shall be binding, because her husband disallowed her. And the Lord will acquit her.

⁸ But if her husband expressly disallow her on the day when he shall hear, none of her vows, and none of the obligations with which she hath bound her soul, shall be binding, because her husband disallowed her. And the Lord will acquit her. ⁹ But the vows of a widow, or of one divorced; whatever vows she may have made to bind her soul, shall stand against her. ¹⁰ And if her vow, or the obligation with which she bound her soul with an oath, be made in her husband's house; ¹¹ and her husband shall hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her; all her vows and all her promises with which she hath bound her soul shall stand against her.

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked;

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked; ⁶ and to that place you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your oblations, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and your thank offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and flocks;

⁶ and to that place you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your oblations, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and your thank offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and flocks; ⁷ and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and rejoice with your households, for all your possessions, and the labours of your hands, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

¹¹ To that place you shall bring all that I this day command you, your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the oblations of your hands, and the choice of all your gifts which you may vow to the Lord your God;

¹¹ To that place you shall bring all that I this day command you, your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the oblations of your hands, and the choice of all your gifts which you may vow to the Lord your God; ¹² and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men servants, and your maid servants, and the Levite who is at your gates, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. ¹³ Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy whole burnt offerings in every place which thou mayst see; ¹⁴ but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of thy tribes. There you shall offer your whole burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I this day command you.

¹⁷ Thou shall not be at liberty to eat, in thy cities, the tythe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and thine oil, nor the firstlings of thy herds, and thy flocks, nor any of thy vows, which you shall make, nor your thank offerings, nor the oblations of thy hands. ¹⁸ These thou shalt eat no where but before the Lord, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for himself; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the stranger who is in thy cities. And when thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, for all thy possessions and all the labours of thy hand,

¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not;

¹¹ And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who is among you, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked.

¹⁶ every male shall, three times in the year, appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; at the festival of unleavened bread, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of tabernacles. Thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty handed.

¹⁵ If any man hath two wives, and one of them be beloved, and the other hated; and both the beloved, and the hated, bear him children, and the son of the hated be the first born,

¹⁵ If any man hath two wives, and one of them be beloved, and the other hated; and both the beloved, and the hated, bear him children, and the son of the hated be the first born, ¹⁶ he shall not be at liberty, when he bequeatheth his substance to his children, to give the right of primogeniture to the son of the beloved, and overlook the son of the hated, who is the first born; ¹⁷ but shall acknowledge the son of the hated as his first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath, because he is the head of his children, and the rights of primogeniture belong to him.

⁷ thou mayst explain them to thy son, and say, Because the river Jordan dried up at the presence of the Ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it crossed it, therefore you shall have these stones for an everlasting memorial for the children of Israel.

¹⁷ But Joshua said to the children of Joseph, If thou art a numerous people, and hast great power, thou wilt not have one lot only, ¹⁸ for the forest will be thine. Though it is a forest thou canst clear it, and it shall be thine when thou hast rooted out the Chananites. For though they have choice horses, thou shalt excel them in strength.

¹ When all the congregation of Israel assembled at Selo, and fixed there the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued under them,

¹² all the Israelites assembled at Selo, to go up to war against them. ¹³ And the children of Israel sent to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, to the land of Galaad, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the chief priest, ¹⁴ and ten of the chiefs with him, a chief from the head family of every tribe of Israel. Now the chiefs of the head families are the chiliarchs of Israel. ¹⁵ And when they came to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, to the land of Galaad, they spoke to them, saying, ¹⁶ Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this which you have committed in the presence of the God of Israel, to turn away this day from the Lord, having built for yourselves an altar that you may apostatize from the Lord? ¹⁷ Is the sin of Phogor a small matter to you? Because we have not been cleansed from it even to this day, though there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord; ¹⁸ are you therefore now turned away from the Lord? For the consequence will be, if you this day apostatize from the Lord, there will be to-morrow wrath against all Israel. ¹⁹ Now if the land of your possession be too small for you, come over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord is pitched, and take a possession among us, and do not become apostates from God, nor revolt from the Lord by building for yourselves an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Behold when Achar, son of Zara, committed a trespass in regard to the Anathema, was there not wrath against all the congregation of Israel, so that he perished not alone for his sin?

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

³³ And after these things, Eleazar son of Aaron, the chief priest, died, and was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to Phineas his son, which he had given him on mount Ephraim. At that time the children of Israel took up the ark of God, and carried it about among them. And Phineas officiated as priest in the room of his father Eleazar. And when he died, he was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to him. As for the children of Israel, they had gone to their several homes, and to their respective: cities. And when the children of Israel fell to worshipping Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations around them, the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon king of Moab, and he exercised dominion over them eighteen years.

³⁰ Now Gideon had seventy sons who proceeded from his loins, for he had many wives.

³⁰ And Jephthae vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If thou deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

⁵ therefore the Galaadites seized the passages of the Jordan before Ephraim; and when those of Ephraim who escaped, said, Let us cross over; the men of Galaad said to them, Art thou an Ephraimite?

² Now there was a man of Saraa, a community of the Danites, whose name was Manoe; and his wife was barren, and never had a child.

⁵ For behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and on his head a razor shall not come; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

¹ There was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah;

⁶ And the priest said to them, Go in peace. This journey of yours which you are going is before the Lord.

³¹ They indeed set up for themselves the graven image which Micah made, all the time the house of God was at Selom.

¹ In those days when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and he took him a concubine from Bethlehem Juda,

² So when the people came to Baithel they sat there till evening before God, then raising their voice, they wept bitterly

² The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife's name was Noemin, and the names of his two sons, Maalon and Chelaion. They were Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. They went to the country of Moab, and while they were there,

²⁰ But she said to them, Call me not, I pray you, Noemin. Call me, Bitter: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

¹³ And she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my Lord, for thou hast comforted me. Now because thou hast spoken affectionately to thy servant, behold let me therefore be like one of thy maid servants.

¹⁵ He shall be to thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age. For thy daughter in law, who loved thee, hath brought forth a son. She is better to thee than seven sons.

¹ There was a man of Armathaim-Sipha, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkana, son of Jeremeel, son of Eliu, son of Thoke, at Nasib -Ephraim.

³ And Phennana had children; but Anna had not a child. And this man went up, year after year, out of his city; from Armathaim, to worship, and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabbaoth, at Selom; for Eli and his two sons, Ophni and Phineas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

⁹ Thereupon Anna rose up, after they had eaten at Selom, and stood before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat at 4 the door posts of the temple of the Lord.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, Adonai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented liquor, nor shall a razor come on his head.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, Adonai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented liquor, nor shall a razor come on his head. ¹² And while she was continuing her prayer before the Lord, Eli the priest observed her mouth. ¹³ When she spoke in her heart, her lips moved, but her voice was not heard, so Eli thought that she was drunk.

¹⁷ Then Eli in reply said to her, Go in peace. May the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.

¹⁹ And they arose early in the morning, and worshipped the Lord, and set out on their journey. And when Elkana came to his house at Armathaim, he knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her,

²¹ And when the man Elkana went up, with his household, to offer at Selom his annual sacrifice, and his vows, and all the tythes of his land, ²² Anna did not go up with him; for she said to her husband, Not till the boy can go up after I have weaned him, that he may appear before the Lord, and abide there continually.

²⁸ therefore I dedicate him to the Lord, all the days of his life, as a loan to the Lord. Then she said,

¹¹ So she left the child there before the Lord, and returned to Armathaim; and the child ministered in the presence of the Lord before Eli the spriest. ¹² Now the sons of Eli the priest were wicked men. They did not know the Lord;

¹² Now the sons of Eli the priest were wicked men. They did not know the Lord; ¹³ nor what was the priest's due from the people; from all who offered a sacrifice; ¹⁴ but the servant of the priest would come when the flesh was boiling; and having a three pronged flesh fork in his hand, would strike it into the great cauldron, or into the brass kettle, or into the pot; and all that came up with the flesh fork the priest took for himself. In this manner they did to all the Israelites who came to sacrifice to the Lord at Selom. ¹⁵ And before the suet was burned, the priest's servant would come, and say to the man who was sacrificing, Give me flesh to roast for the priest, for I will not take boiled flesh from thee out of the kettle. ¹⁶ And if the man who was sacrificing said, Let the suet first be burned according to the ritual, then take for thyself any piece thy soul desireth; he would say, No; thou shalt give it me now. And if not; I will take it by force. ¹⁷ So that the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; because they set at naught the sacrifice of the Lord. ¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child girded with a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And his mother made for him a little doublet, and brought it up for him every year, when she came up with her husband, to offer their annual sacrifice.

³⁴ And this which shall come upon thy two sons, shall be a sign to thee. Ophni and Phineas shall both be put to death on the same day.

¹ Now when the child Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli the priest [in those days the word of the Lord was precious; there was no distinct vision]

³ and before the lamp of God was replenished, and Samuel was sleeping at the temple, where the ark of God was,

¹³ I have indeed told him that I will take vengeance on his house for ever, for the iniquities of his sons. Because his sons spoke evil of God, and be did not chastise them,

¹⁵ And Samuel lay till the morning, and arose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord, but was afraid to tell the vision.

³ And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why hath the Lord caused us this day to shrink before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of our God from Selom, and let it go forth from the midst of us, and it will save us out of the hands of our enemies. ⁴ So the people sent to Selom, and brought thence the ark of the Lord who is enthroned on the cherubim. And both the sons of Eli, Ophni and Phineas, went with the ark.

⁴ So the people sent to Selom, and brought thence the ark of the Lord who is enthroned on the cherubim. And both the sons of Eli, Ophni and Phineas, went with the ark.

¹¹ And the ark of God was taken, and Ophni and Phineas, the two sons of Eli, were both slain.

¹⁷ And the young man in reply, said, Israel fled before the face of the Philistines, and there was a great slaughter among the people, and both thy sons are dead, and the ark of God is taken. ¹⁸ Soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his seat by the gate, and his back was broken, and he died; for he was an old man and heavy. Now he had judged Israel twenty years.

⁵ And when they came to Siph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us return, lest my father, forgetting the asses, be concerned for us.

²⁶ And Samuel went up to him early in the morning, and called Saul on the house top and said, Arise, and I will dismiss thee. Thereupon he arose and went out, he and Samuel, till they were out of the city.

²⁷ But turbulent men said, How can this man save us? And they despised him, and did not bring him gifts.

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³ And David in reply to Jonathan, said, Thy father knoweth well, that I have found favour in thy sight, therefore he said, Jonathan must not know this. He will not consent. But as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, it is as I said. There is but a step between me and death.

²⁵ Let not my lord, I pray thee, set his heart against this perverse man. For as is his name so is he. His name is Nabal, and with him is folly. But I thy servant did not see my lord's servants whom thou didst send.

³⁵ Then David received at her hand all that she brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house. See, I have hearkened to thy voice from a personal regard to thee.

⁷ Now therefore return, and go in peace, that thou mayst not give offence to the lords of the Philistines.

² the king said to Nathan the prophet, Behold I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth in the midst of the tabernacle.

²⁵ Now therefore, my Lord, confirm the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and his house, confirm it everlastingly, Lord Almighty, O God of Israel.

¹¹ And Ourias said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Juda, dwell in tents, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord encamp on the ground, and shall I go down to my house to eat and drink, and lie with my wife? How can I do it? As thy soul liveth, I will do no such thing.

¹⁶ And while it was sick David besought God for the child, and fasted and went in and lay on the ground. ¹⁷ And when the elders of his house came to raise him from the ground, he would not consent, nor would he eat bread with them.

³⁶ And just as he had finished speaking, behold the king's sons came, and they raised their voice, and wept, and the king also, and all his servants, wept bitterly.

¹⁹ And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in this whole business? And the woman said to the king, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, there is no turning to the right, nor to the left, from all that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab commanded me, and he himself put all these words in the mouth of thy servant,

¹² Perhaps the Lord may look on my affliction, and return me good for his cursing this day.

⁸ Thou thyself, said Chousi, knowest thy father and his men, that they are very brave, and chafed in their minds like a bear bereaved of her whelps in the fields; or like a wild boar in the plain. And thy father is a man of war, and will not let the people rest.

²⁶ With regard to Jeroboam son of Nabat, the Ephrathite of Sarira, a widow's son, a servant of Solomon, this was the cause why he lifted up his hand against king Solomon.

² Now Elias had said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee, for God hath sent me to Baithel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went to Baithel.

⁴ Then Elias said to Elisha, Tarry here I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, I will not forsake thee. So they went to Jericho.

⁶ Then Elias said to him, Tarry here I pray thee, for the Lord hath sent me to the Jordan. But Elisha replied, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they both proceeded on.

³⁰ But the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth and thy soul liveth I will not leave thee. So Elisha arose and followed her.

¹⁹ And Elisha said to Naiman, Go in peace.

¹² Whereupon Azael said, Why doth my lord weep? To which he replied, Because I know all the evils which thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their fortresses thou wilt demolish with fire; their chosen men thou wilt slay with the sword. Thou wilt dash to pieces their infants, and rip up their women with child.

³ Lord, remember I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Ezekias wept sore.

¹⁰ And Igabes called on the God of Israel, and said, If thou wilt bless me with blessings and enlarge my borders, let thy hand be with me, and give me knowledge that I may not debase myself. Accordingly God gave him all that he asked.

²⁵ And the sons of Elkana, Amessi and Achimoth, ²⁶ Elkana his son, Suphi his son, Kainaath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroboam his son, Elkana his son,

³⁴ son of Elkana, son of Jeroboam, son of Eliel, son of Thou,

⁴ Thereupon the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? And when I had prayed to the God of heaven,

² that some person would weigh my passion: and poise in a balance against it, my calamities. ³ But these would outweigh the sand of the sea, though you seem to think my words too vehement:

¹⁴ Mercy hath bidden me adieu. When the superintending care of the Lord overlooked me,

¹¹ For this cause then I will not refrain my mouth: I will speak though I am in anguish: though distressed, I will unfold the bitterness of my soul.

² How long wilt thou speak such things? The breath of thy mouth is profuse of words.

¹⁸ For he suffereth me not to take breath, and hath filled me with bitterness.

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul,

¹ Weary of my life I would pour forth with groans my words before him: oppressed as I am I would speak in the bitterness of my soul, ² and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast thou thus condemned me?

¹⁴ if there be any iniquity in thy hand, put it far from thee; and let not injustice lodge in thy dwelling.

²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling,

²¹ Because lie did not treat the barren with tenderness, and had no compassion for a poor weak woman.

¹⁶ And now my soul is melting within me. Days of sorrow take hold of me;

³ In the morning thou shalt hear my voice: in the morning I will wait on thee and look up.

⁷ As for me, I through thine abundant mercy, will go to thy house: I will worship before thy holy temple, in thy fear.

⁹ the Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my petition.

³ May he remember all thy sacrifice; And make thy whole burnt offerings fat. ⁴ May he grant thee thy hearts desire: And fulfil all thy counsel. ⁵ We will rejoice in thy salvation, and triumph in the name of our God. May the Lord fulfil all thy petitions!

⁹ Because thou art he, who drew me forth from the womb: my hope, when at the breasts of my mother;

⁶ Thy mercy will surely follow me all the days of my life; and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord to length of days.

¹ A Psalm by David. To thee, Lord, I have lifted up my soul:

⁷ Remember not the sins and follies of my youth; according to thy mercy remember me, Lord, for thy goodness sake.

¹⁸ Look on my humiliation and my trouble and for give all my sins.

⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple.

⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise;

⁴ On recollecting these things, I have poured out my soul by myself. Since I am to pass on, at the place of an awful tabernacle, to the house of God, with a voice of joy and praise; with the acclamations of them who celebrate a festival:

⁴ Let me go to the altar of God; to God, the joy of my youth. With a kithara, I will praise thee, God, my God.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

¹⁷ Evening and morning and at noon I will declare and proclaim; and he will hearken to my voice.

³ How long will you set yourselves against a man? You are all committing murder, as with a bended wall and a rampart pushed down.

⁸ Trust in him all ye congregated people: pour out your hearts before him; for God is our helper.

¹⁹ For this cause God hearkened to me: he attended to the sound of my prayer. ²⁰ Blessed be God who hath not rejected my prayer; nor turned away his mercy from me.

⁶⁰ and he abandoned the tabernacle of Selom; the tent in which he had dwelt among men;

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

² I will conduct myself wisely in a perfect way; when wilt thou come to me? I have walked in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my household.

⁴ The Lord hath sworn and will not change; thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

¹ An Alleluia. I Am full of love, because the Lord will hear the voice of my supplication. ² Because to me he inclined his ear: therefore in my days I will invoke him. ³ The pangs of death encompassed me; the perils of Hades found me: I met with distress and sorrow: ⁴ thereupon I invoked the name of the Lord; Lord deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is gracious and righteous; merciful indeed is our God.

⁵ Because of affliction I called on the Lord, and he heard me for enlargement.

¹⁴⁷ me; and I will keep thy testimonies. I awoke before the dawn of the morning, and cried; on thy words I placed my hope.

¹ A Song of the steps. LORD, remember David, and all his meek humility; ² how he sware to the Lord, and made his vow to the God of Jacob:

²³ because in our affliction the Lord remembered us; for his mercy endureth forever;

² Before him I pour out my prayer: before him I will declare my affliction. ³ When my spirit fainted thou knewest my paths. In the way I was going they hid a snare for me.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee; for thee my soul thirsted like land without water.

²⁴ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put perverse lips far from thee.

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, sluggard, and when wilt thou rouse from sleep?

¹ Wrath destroyeth even the prudent; now a soft answer turneth away wrath; but a harsh word stirreth up anger.

¹⁵ By patience kings have a prosperous journey: and a soft tongue breaketh bones.

⁴ when thou vowest a vow to God delay not the performance of it. For in fools there is no fixed will. Pay thou therefore what thou vowest.

⁷ come eat thy bread with cheerfulness, and drink thy wine with a good heart: because God hath approved of thy works,

⁷ His government shall be great and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to reestablish it, and support it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

¹⁵ and taken from me the sorrow of my soul.

²⁶ but establisheth the word of his servant, and verifieth the counsel of his messengers; who saith to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be inhabited;" and to the cities of Idumea, "Ye shall be re builded, and in its deserts vegetation shall spring up:"

¹ rejoice thou barren, who bearest not; break forth with shouts of joy, thou who sufferest not the pangs of child birth; for many more are the children of the desolate than of her who hath a husband. For the Lord said,

⁶ The Lord hath not called thee as a wife forsaken and disconsolate; nor as a wife that hath been hated from her youth.

¹² Go then to my place which was at Selo, where I caused my name to dwell at first; and see what I have done to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³ Now therefore because you have done all these things: and I have spoken to you and you have not hearkened to me; and I have called you and you have not answered; ¹⁴ I therefore will do to this house which is called by my name, and in which you have placed your confidence; and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers; as I did to Selo.

¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed.

¹⁰ Weep not for him who is dead, nor utter lamentations for him, weep bitterly for him who is going away; for he shall never return, nor see any more his native country.

¹⁹ Arise, chant praise in the night at setting thy watch. Pour out thy heart like water before the Lord; lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who are perishing with hunger at the head of every street.

¹⁵ He glutted me with worm wood; he gave me a large draught of gall,

¹⁵ The Lord Almighty will protect them, and they shall consume them and overwhelm them with sling stones; and drink them up as wine and fill the phials as an altar.

²¹ and she will bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

¹ Judge not, that you may not be judged; ² for as you judge, you shall be judged: and the measure which you mete, shall be measured to you again. ³ Now why art thou observant of the mote in thy brother's eye, and insensible to the splinter in thine own eye?

⁷ Ask, and ye shall obtain; seek and ye shall find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produceth good things; and the bad man, out of his bad treasure produceth bad things.

⁸ He saith to them, Because of your intractable disposition Moses permitted you to put away your wives; but it was not so from the beginning.

¹⁹ But alas for the women with child and for them who give suck in those days.

⁵⁷ And in the evening there came a rich man of Arimathea, whose name was Joseph, and who himself was a disciple of Jesus.

³⁵ And in the morning, when the night was far advanced, he arose and went out, and retired to a solitary place, and there prayed;

³⁴ Whereupon he said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath cured thee. Go in peace, and continue cured of that disorder of thine.

⁷ Now they had no child, as Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in years.

²² And when the days of her purification were accomplished according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord;

³⁶ There was also one Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years. Having lived seven years with a husband from her virgin state,

⁴¹ Now his parents used to go up every year to Jerusalem at the festival of the passover.

⁴¹ Now his parents used to go up every year to Jerusalem at the festival of the passover. ⁴² So when he was twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the festival,

⁵⁰ Thereupon he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee, Go in peace.

⁴⁸ Whereupon he said to her, Daughter, take courage; thy faith hath cured thee. Go in peace.

⁸ I say to you, though he will not rise and give him on account of being his friend; yet on account of his importunity he will rise and give him what he wanteth. ⁹ Now I say to you, Ask, and you shall obtain: seek, and you shall find: knock, and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one who asketh obtaineth: and he who seeketh, findeth: and to him who knocketh, the door will be opened.

²⁷ As he was thus speaking, it happened that a woman among the crowd, raising her voice, said to him, Happy the womb which bore thee and the breasts which thou hast sucked!

¹ Then he addressed them with a parable, to shew them that they ought to persevere in prayer, and not be discouraged;

¹⁵ When they brought even little children to him that he might touch them, and his disciples observing it, rebuked them; ¹⁶ Jesus thereupon having called the children to him, said, Suffer the children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

⁴⁴ And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground.

⁴² Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest to thy kingdom.

²⁴ Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

¹³ and they say to her, Woman why weepest thou? She saith to them, Because they have taken away my lord, and I know not where they have4 laid him.

¹⁵ Jesus saith to her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom art thou seeking? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith to him, Sir, if thou hast taken him up; tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

¹³ But others scoffingly said, They are filled with sweet wine.

²⁶ and in such a manner as the spirit joineth in helping our infirmities: for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself intercedeth for us with groans which cannot be expressed in words.

¹³ Now may the God of this trust fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in this trust by virtue of a holy spirit.

⁷ It beareth all things. It believeth all things. It hopeth all things. It endureth all things patiently.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away all falsehood, speak truth, every one to his neighbour. Because we are members one of another,

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and detraction, be banished from among you, with malice of every sort;

¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints

⁶ Be anxious about nothing; but on all occasions, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; ⁷ and the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds safe in Christ Jesus.

² Continue in the constant exercise of prayer, watching there in with thanksgiving;

¹⁴ And we exhort you, brethren; admonish the disorderly; comfort the desponding; support the weak; exercise forbearance towards all;

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹⁵ and that, from thy childhood, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise for salvation by trusting in Christ Jesus.

⁷ He, [who in the days of his flesh, having, with a strong cry and tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being hearkened to, did, from a reverential awe notwithstanding his being a son, learn obedience from what he suffered;

¹⁶ Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man under the divine impulse is very powerful.

¹⁵ Now, if we know that he hearkeneth to us in whatever we may ask; we know that we obtain from him the petitions which we have asked.