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The redeemer replied, "I can't redeem it myself, or I will ruin my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I can't redeem it."

May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman."

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, because she said, "I requested him from the Lord ."

Hannah prayed: My heart rejoices in the Lord ; my horn is lifted up by the Lord . My mouth boasts over my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.

Even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest some meat to roast, because he won't accept boiled meat from you—only raw."

So the servants' sin was very severe in the presence of the Lord , because they treated the Lord 's offering with contempt.

Now Samuel had not yet experienced the Lord , because the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are defiling the sanctuary, and he has not stopped them.

The Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.

When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road watching, because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.

At that time Eli was 98 years old, and his gaze was fixed because he couldn't see.

Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God's ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.

"The glory has departed from Israel," she said, "because the ark of God has been captured."

When the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, "The ark of Israel's God must not stay here with us, because His hand is strongly against us and our god Dagon."

God struck down the men of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord . He struck down 70 men out of 50,000 men. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.

When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their rulers marched up toward Israel. When the Israelites heard about it, they were afraid because of the Philistines.

Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, he judged Israel there, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you've chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won't answer you on that day."

The women answered, "Yes, he is ahead of you. Hurry, he just now came to the city, because there's a sacrifice for the people at the high place today.