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May your house, because of the seed Adonai will give you from this young woman, become like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Y'hudah."

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved Hannah, even though Adonai had kept her from having children.

Her rival taunted her and made her feel bad, because Adonai had kept her from having children.

Don't think of your servant as a worthless woman; because I have been speaking from the depth of my distress and anger."

She conceived; and in due time she gave birth to a son, whom she named Sh'mu'el, "because I asked Adonai for him."

Then Hannah prayed; she said: "My heart exults in Adonai ! My dignity has been restored by Adonai ! I can gloat over my enemies, because of my joy at your saving me.

"No one is as holy as Adonai , because there is none to compare with you, no rock like our God.

The cohen's servant would actually come before the fat had burned to smoke and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the cohen meat he can roast; because he doesn't want your meat stewed, but raw."

The sin of these young men was very serious in Adonai 's view, because they treated offerings made to Adonai with contempt.

‘Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May Adonai give you children from this woman because of the boy you have loaned to Adonai "; then they would go home.

If a person commits a sin against another person, the judges can mediate between them. But if a person commits a sin against Adonai , who can intercede for him?" However, they wouldn't pay attention to what their father said, because Adonai had decided to kill them.

Still, I won't cut off every one of your men from my altar; because that would make your eyes grow dim, and you would waste away. Nevertheless, all your descendants will die young.

For I have told him that I will execute judgment against his family forever, because of his wickedness in not rebuking his sons, even though he knew that they had brought a curse on themselves.

As he arrived, ‘Eli was sitting on his seat by the road, watching; because he was trembling with anxiety over the ark of God. When the man entered the city and told the news, the whole city began crying out.

‘Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed, because he was blind.

As she was dying, the women standing by her said to her, "Don't be afraid, because you have given birth to a son." But she didn't answer or show any sign of recognition.

She named the child I-Khavod [without glory], saying, "The glory has departed from Isra'el"; because the ark of God had been captured, and because of her father-in-law and husband.

She said, "The glory of Isra'el has gone into exile, because the ark of God has been captured."

When the people of Ashdod came to understand what was happening, they said, "The ark of the God of Isra'el can't remain with us, because he is oppressing us and our god Dagon."

So they summoned all the leaders of the P'lishtim and said, "Send the ark of the God of Isra'el away! Let it go back to its own place, so that it won't kill us and our people!" — because death and panic pervaded the whole city; God's oppression was very heavy there.