1Hannah prayed, and said: "My heart exults in the Lord! My horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.stylusLuke 1:46, Luke 1:56, Luke 1:46, Luke 1:56, Psalms 13:52There is no one as holy as the Lord, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.stylus2 Samuel 22:32, 2 Samuel 22:32, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:6, Psalms 86:83"Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the Lord is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.stylusProverbs 8:13, 1 Kings 8:39, Proverbs 8:13, 1 Kings 8:39, Proverbs 24:124"The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.stylusPsalms 76:3, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 76:3, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 46:95Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.stylusPsalms 113:9, Luke 1:53, Psalms 113:9, Luke 1:53, Jeremiah 15:96"The Lord kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.stylusDeuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 26:19, Isaiah 26:19, 2 Kings 5:77The Lord makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.stylusPsalms 75:7, Psalms 75:7, Job 5:11, Job 5:11, Deuteronomy 8:178He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's. He has set the world on them.stylusPsalms 113:7, Psalms 113:8, Psalms 113:7, Psalms 113:8, Daniel 2:489He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.stylusPsalms 121:3, Psalms 121:3, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 91:1110Those who strive with the Lord shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."stylusPsalms 2:9, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 89:24, Psalms 89:24, Exodus 15:611Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served the Lord before Eli the priest.stylus1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 1:2812Now the sons of Eli were base men; they did not know the Lord.stylusRomans 1:28, Romans 1:30, Romans 1:28, Romans 1:30, Jeremiah 2:813The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;stylusLeviticus 7:29, Leviticus 7:34, Leviticus 7:29, Leviticus 7:3414and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.stylus1 Samuel 2:29, Leviticus 7:34, Exodus 29:27, Exodus 29:28, Isaiah 56:1115Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."stylusLeviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:3, Leviticus 3:5, Romans 16:1816If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires"; then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."stylusLeviticus 7:23, Leviticus 7:25, Leviticus 7:23, Leviticus 7:25, Leviticus 3:1617The sin of the young men was very great before the Lord; for they despised the offering of the Lord.stylusMalachi 2:7, Malachi 2:9, Malachi 2:7, Malachi 2:9, Malachi 2:1318But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.stylusExodus 28:4, 1 Samuel 3:1, Exodus 28:4, 1 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:1119Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.stylus1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:21, 1 Samuel 1:21, Exodus 23:1420Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "The Lord give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of the Lord." They went to their own home.stylus1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 1:28, 1 Samuel 1:27, 1 Samuel 1:28, Luke 2:3421The Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the Lord.stylusGenesis 21:1, Luke 2:40, Genesis 21:1, Luke 2:40, 1 Samuel 3:1922Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.stylusExodus 38:8, Exodus 38:8, 1 Samuel 2:13, 1 Samuel 2:17, 1 Samuel 2:1323He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.stylusActs 9:4, 1 Kings 1:6, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 3:3, Acts 14:1524No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the Lord's people disobey.stylusExodus 32:21, 1 Samuel 2:17, 2 Peter 2:18, Malachi 2:8, 1 Timothy 3:725If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the Lord intended to kill them.stylusHebrews 10:26, 1 Samuel 3:14, Joshua 11:20, Hebrews 10:26, 1 Samuel 3:1426The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the Lord, and also with men.stylusLuke 2:52, Luke 2:52, Luke 2:40, Luke 2:40, 1 Samuel 2:2127A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, I plainly revealed myself to the house of your father, when they were slaves in Egypt to the house of Pharaoh.stylus1 Kings 13:1, Deuteronomy 33:1, Judges 13:6, Exodus 4:14, Exodus 4:1628And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me. And I gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire.stylusExodus 28:1, Exodus 28:1, Leviticus 8:7, Leviticus 8:8, Leviticus 8:729Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'stylusMatthew 10:37, Matthew 10:37, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:15, 1 Samuel 2:1330"Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now the Lord says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.stylusJohn 12:26, John 12:26, Jeremiah 18:9, Jeremiah 18:10, Jeremiah 18:931Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.stylus1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 4:232You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.stylusZechariah 8:4, Zechariah 8:4, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 78:64, 1 Samuel 4:1133The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.stylus1 Kings 2:26, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 2:26, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 1:1934"'This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.stylus1 Samuel 4:11, 1 Kings 13:3, 1 Samuel 4:11, 1 Kings 13:3, 1 Samuel 4:1735I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.stylus2 Samuel 7:27, 2 Samuel 7:27, 2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Kings 11:38, 2 Samuel 7:1136It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"stylus1 Kings 2:27, 1 Kings 2:27, Malachi 1:13, Ezekiel 44:10, Ezekiel 44:12