Verse 18
1 Samuel 2:18
GOD'S WORD Translation
18
But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, 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 Yahweh!
My horn is exalted in Yahweh.
My mouth is enlar...
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2
There is no one as holy as Yahweh,
For there is no one besides you,
nor is there any rock like our G...
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3
“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly.
Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth,
For Yahweh i...
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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
“Yahweh kills, and makes alive.
He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
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7
Yahweh 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 wit...
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9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones,
but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness;
for no m...
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10
Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces.
He will thunder against them in the sky.
“Ya...
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11
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
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12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
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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 burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Giv...
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16
If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires”; t...
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17
The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.
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18
But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, 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 u...
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20
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the p...
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21
Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel gr...
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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 this people.
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24
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’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 Yahweh, who...
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26
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
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27
A man of God (Elohim) came to Eli, and said to him, “Yahweh 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 Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house o...
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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...
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32
You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel; and there...
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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;...
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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...
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35
I will raise me up a faithful priest, that will do according to that which is in my heart and in my...
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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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