1My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.

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Luke 1:46, Luke 1:56, Luke 1:46, Luke 1:56, Psalms 13:5

2There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.

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2 Samuel 22:32, 2 Samuel 22:32, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:6, Psalms 86:8

3Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

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Proverbs 8:13, 1 Kings 8:39, Proverbs 8:13, 1 Kings 8:39, Proverbs 24:12

4The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.

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Psalms 76:3, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 76:3, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 46:9

5They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.

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Psalms 113:9, Luke 1:53, Psalms 113:9, Luke 1:53, Jeremiah 15:9

6The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

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Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 26:19, Isaiah 26:19, 2 Kings 5:7

7The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth:

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Psalms 75:7, Psalms 75:7, Job 5:11, Job 5:11, Deuteronomy 8:17

8He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

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Psalms 113:7, Psalms 113:8, Psalms 113:7, Psalms 113:8, Daniel 2:48

9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

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Psalms 121:3, Psalms 121:3, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 91:11

10The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

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Psalms 2:9, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 89:24, Psalms 89:24, Exodus 15:6

11And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child ministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.

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1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 1:28

12Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

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Romans 1:28, Romans 1:30, Romans 1:28, Romans 1:30, Jeremiah 2:8

13Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh was in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,

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Leviticus 7:29, Leviticus 7:34, Leviticus 7:29, Leviticus 7:34

14And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo.

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1 Samuel 2:29, Leviticus 7:34, Exodus 29:27, Exodus 29:28, Isaiah 56:11

15Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw.

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Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:3, Leviticus 3:5, Romans 16:18

16And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul desireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give it me now, or else I will take it by force.

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Leviticus 7:23, Leviticus 7:25, Leviticus 7:23, Leviticus 7:25, Leviticus 3:16

17Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord.

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Malachi 2:7, Malachi 2:9, Malachi 2:7, Malachi 2:9, Malachi 2:13

18But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.

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Exodus 28:4, 1 Samuel 3:1, Exodus 28:4, 1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:11

19And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice.

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1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:21, 1 Samuel 1:21, Exodus 23:14

20And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. And they went to their own home.

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1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 1:28, 1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 1:28, Luke 2:34

21And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord.

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Genesis 21:1, Luke 2:40, Genesis 21:1, Luke 2:40, 1 Samuel 3:19

22Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:

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Exodus 38:8, Exodus 38:8, 1 Samuel 2:13, 1 Samuel 2:17, 1 Samuel 2:13

23And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

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Acts 9:4, 1 Kings 1:6, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 3:3, Acts 14:15

24Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.

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Exodus 32:21, 1 Samuel 2:17, 2 Peter 2:18, Malachi 2:8, 1 Timothy 3:7

25If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

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Hebrews 10:26, 1 Samuel 3:14, Joshua 11:20, Hebrews 10:26, 1 Samuel 3:14

26But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the Lord and men.

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Luke 2:52, Luke 2:52, Luke 2:40, Luke 2:40, 1 Samuel 2:21

27And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father's house, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharao?

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1 Kings 13:1, Deuteronomy 33:1, Judges 13:6, Exodus 4:14, Exodus 4:16

28And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of the children of Israel.

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Exodus 28:1, Exodus 28:1, Leviticus 8:7, Leviticus 8:8, Leviticus 8:7

29Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel?

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Matthew 10:37, Matthew 10:37, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:15, 1 Samuel 2:13

30Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

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John 12:26, John 12:26, Jeremiah 18:9, Jeremiah 18:10, Jeremiah 18:9

31Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.

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1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 4:2

32And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

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Zechariah 8:4, Zechariah 8:4, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 78:64, 1 Samuel 4:11

33However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my altar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great part of thy house shall die, when they come to man's estate.

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1 Kings 2:26, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 2:26, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 1:19

34And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.

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1 Samuel 4:11, 1 Kings 13:3, 1 Samuel 4:11, 1 Kings 13:3, 1 Samuel 4:17

35And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according to my heart, and my soul and I will build him a faithful house, and he shall walk all days before my anointed.

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2 Samuel 7:27, 2 Samuel 7:27, 2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Kings 11:38, 2 Samuel 7:11

36And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

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1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 2:27, Malachi 1:13, Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 44:12