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But he would give twice as much to Hannah, for he loved Hannah. But the Lord had made it so she could not have children.

Do not think of your woman servant as a woman of no worth. For I have been speaking out of much trouble and pain in my spirit."

The Lord made it possible for her to have a child, and when the time came she gave birth to a son. She gave him the name Samuel, saying, "I have asked the Lord for him."

But Hannah did not go. For she said to her husband, "I will not go up until the child no longer needs to be nursed. Then I will bring him before the Lord, to stay there forever."

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me what I asked of Him.

There is no one holy like the Lord. For sure, there is no one other than You. There is no rock like our God.

Speak no more in your pride. Do not let proud talk come out of your mouth. For the Lord is a God Who knows. Actions are weighed by Him.

Those who were full go out to work for bread. But those who were hungry are filled. She who could not give birth has given birth to seven. But she who has many children has become weak.

He lifts the poor from the dust. He lifts those in need from the ashes. He makes them sit with rulers and receive a seat of honor. For what holds the earth belongs to the Lord. He has set the world in its place.

He watches over the steps of His good people. But the sinful ones will be made quiet in darkness. For a man will not win by strength.

Then he would put it in the pot. The religious leader would take for himself all that the meat-hook brought up. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.

And before they burned the fat, the religious leader's servant would come and say to the man who brought the gift in worship, "Give meat for the religious leader to make ready. For he will not take boiled meat from you, but only meat that has just been killed."

So the sin of the young men was very bad before the Lord. For the men hated the gift of the Lord.

If one man sins against another, God will help make peace for him. But if a man sins against the Lord, who can make peace for him?" Yet they would not listen to what their father said, for it was the Lord's will to kill them.

Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the Lord says. ‘Did I not let Myself be known to those of your father's family when they were in Egypt being made to work for Pharaoh's house?

Why do you show no respect to My gifts which I have asked for, and honor your sons more than Me? You make yourselves fat with the best part of every gift given in worship by My people Israel.'

So the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I did promise that those of your family and the family of your father should walk before Me forever.' But now the Lord says, ‘May this be far from Me. For I will honor those who honor Me. And those who hate Me will not be honored.

You will see the trouble of My family, even in all the good I do for Israel. And an old man will not be in your family forever.

I will raise up for Myself a faithful religious leader who will act by what is in My heart and mind. I will build him a family to last. And he will walk before My chosen one forever.

Everyone who is left in your family will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and say, "I beg you, put me in one of the religious leader's places so that I may eat a piece of bread."'"