Verse 18
1 Samuel 2:18
World English Bible, British Edition
18
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a
linen ephod.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/שְׁמוּאֵ֕ל מְשָׁרֵ֖ת אֶת פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה נַ֕עַר חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד
English Translation
And Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
Hannah prayed, and said,
“My heart exults in the LORD!
My horn is exalted in the LORD.
My mouth is e...
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2
There is no one as holy as the LORD,
for there is no one besides you,
nor is there any rock like our...
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3
“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly.
Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth,
for the LORD...
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4
“The bows of the mighty men are broken.
Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
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5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread.
Those who were hungry are satisfied.
Yes, t...
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6
“The LORD kills and makes alive.
He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
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7
The LORD makes poor and makes rich.
He brings low, he also lifts up.
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8
He raises up the poor out of the dust.
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill
to make them sit with...
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9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones,
but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness;
for no ma...
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10
Those who strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces.
He will thunder against them in the sky.
“...
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11
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the LORD
before Eli the priest.
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12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
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13
The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered
a sacrifice, the priest’s ser...
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14
and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The
priest took all that the fork br...
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15
Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said
to the man who sacrificed, “Give...
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16
If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burnt first, and then
take as much as your soul desires;” th...
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17
The sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men
despised the LORD’s offering.
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18
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a
linen ephod.
19
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from
year to year when she came up...
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20
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May The LORD give you offspring from this woman for the...
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21
The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two
daughters. The child Samuel g...
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22
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all
Israel, and how that they slept with...
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23
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil
dealings from all these people.
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24
No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s
people disobey.
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25
If one man sins against another, God (Elohim) will judge him; but if a man sins
against the LORD, wh...
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26
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favour both with the
LORD and also with men.
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27
A man of God (Elohim) came to Eli and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Did
I reveal myself to the house...
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28
Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest,
to go up to my altar, to burn i...
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29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded
in my habitation, and hon...
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30
“Therefore the LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your
house and the house...
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31
Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house,
that there wi...
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32
You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which
I will give Israel. There shal...
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33
The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your
eyes and grieve your heart. Al...
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34
This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni
and Phinehas: in one day the...
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35
I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to
that which is in my heart and...
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36
It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and
bow down to him for a piece of...
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