Verse 4
1 Samuel 2:4
Literal Standard Version
4
Bows of the mighty are broken, || And the stumbling have girded on strength.
Original Language Text
hebrew
קֶ֥שֶׁת גִּבֹּרִ֖ים חַתִּ֑ים וְ/נִכְשָׁלִ֖ים אָ֥זְרוּ חָֽיִל
English Translation
The bow of the mighty is broken, and the feeble are girded with strength.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
And Hannah prays and says: “My heart has exulted in YHWH, || My horn has been high in YHWH, || My mo...
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There is none holy like YHWH, || For there is none except You, || And there is no rock like our God...
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3
You do not multiply—you speak haughtily—The old saying goes out from your mouth, || For YHWH is a Go...
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4
Bows of the mighty are broken, || And the stumbling have girded on strength.
5
The satiated hired themselves for bread, || And the hungry have ceased. While the barren has borne s...
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6
YHWH puts to death, and keeps alive, || He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
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7
YHWH dispossesses, and He makes rich, || He makes low, indeed, He makes high.
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8
He raises the poor from the dust, || He lifts up the needy from a dunghill, || To cause them to sit...
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9
He keeps the feet of His saints, || And the wicked are silent in darkness, || For man does not becom...
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10
YHWH—His adversaries are broken down, || He thunders against them in the heavens: YHWH judges the en...
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11
And Elkanah goes to Ramath, to his house, and the youth has been serving YHWH in the presence of Eli...
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12
and the sons of Eli are sons of worthlessness, they have not known YHWH.
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13
And the custom of the priests with the people is that when any man is sacrificing a sacrifice, then...
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14
and has struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot; all that the hook brings up the prie...
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15
Also, before they make incense with the fat, then the priest’s servant has come in and said to the m...
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16
and the man says to him, “Let them surely make incense with the fat according to the custom today, t...
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17
And the sin of the young men is very great in the presence of YHWH, for the men have despised the of...
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18
And Samuel is ministering in the presence of YHWH, a youth girt with an ephod of linen;
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19
and his mother makes a small upper coat for him, and she has brought it up to him from time to time,...
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20
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “YHWH appoints seed of this woman for you, for the p...
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21
When YHWH has looked after Hannah, then she conceives and bears three sons and two daughters; and th...
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22
And Eli is very old, and has heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with th...
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23
and he says to them, “Why do you do things like these? For I am hearing of your evil words from all...
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24
No, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good, causing the people of YHWH to transgress...
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25
If a man sins against a man, then God (Elohim) has judged him; but if a man sins against YHWH, who p...
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26
And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good with both YHWH, and also with men.
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27
And a man of God (Elohim) comes to Eli and says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Was I really revealed to th...
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28
even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel for a priest for Myself, to go up on My altar, to...
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29
Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering, which I commanded in My habitation, and honor yo...
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30
Therefore—a declaration of YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel—I certainly said, Your house and the house o...
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31
Behold, days are coming, and I have cut off your arm, and the arm of the house of your father, that...
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32
and you have beheld an adversary in My habitation, in all that He does good with Israel, and there i...
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33
And the man of yours I do not cut off from My altar—My purpose is to consume your eyes, and to griev...
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34
and this is the sign to you that comes to your two sons, to Hophni and Phinehas—in one day both of t...
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35
and I have raised up a steadfast priest for Myself; he does as in My heart and in My soul; and I hav...
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and it has been, everyone who is left in your house comes to bow himself to him for a wage of silver...
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