1 Samuel 2
1 Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in [what] you, [, have done]. I am strong [MET] because I belong to you. I (laugh at/ridicule) my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me [from being taunted by them].
and to pray Hannah and to say to rejoice heart my in/on/with LORD to exalt horn my in/on/with LORD to enlarge lip my upon enemy my for to rejoice in/on/with salvation your
2 There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us [as though you were putting us beneath] a huge rock [where we can hide from danger].
nothing holy like/as LORD for nothing lest you and nothing rock like/as God our
3 [You people who oppose God], stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows [everything], and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly!
not to multiply to speak: speak high high to come out: speak arrogant from lip your for God knowledge LORD (and to/for him *Q(K)*) to measure wantonness
4 Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble [because of being weak].
bow mighty man shattered and to stumble to gird strength
5 Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people [to earn money] to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry any more. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely [because they have all died].
sated in/on/with food: bread to hire and hungry to cease till barren to beget seven and many son: child to weaken
6 Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people, [it seems that they will soon] go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. (Sheol h7585)
LORD to die and to live to go down hell: Sheol and to ascend: establish (Sheol h7585)
7 Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.
LORD to possess: poor and to enrich to abase also to exalt
8 [Sometimes] you lift poor people up so that they are no longer [despondent, sitting in the dust, ] or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.
to arise: raise from dust poor from refuse to exalt needy to/for to dwell with noble and throne glory to inherit them for to/for LORD pillar land: country/planet and to set: make upon them world
9 You will protect your loyal/faithful people [SYN], but you will cause the wicked to die [EUP] and descend to the dark [place where dead people are]. We do not defeat [our enemies] by our own strength;
foot (pious his *Q(K)*) to keep: guard and wicked in/on/with darkness to silence: destroyed for not in/on/with strength to prevail man: anyone
10 Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you (oppose/are angry with) them. Yahweh, you will judge [people everywhere, even those who live in] the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power [over his enemies].”
LORD to descend (to contend him *Q(K)*) (upon him *Q(k)*) in/on/with heaven to thunder LORD to judge end land: country/planet and to give: give strength to/for king his and to exalt horn anointed his
11 Then Elkanah [and his family] returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.
and to go: went Elkanah [the] Ramah [to] upon house: home his and [the] youth to be to minister [obj] LORD with face: before Eli [the] priest
12 Eli’s two [, who were also priests, ] were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh.
and son: child Eli son: descendant/people Belial not to know [obj] LORD
13 While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices [in the huge pot at the temple], one of Eli’s sons, [would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand].
and justice: custom [the] priest with [the] people all man to sacrifice sacrifice and to come (in): come youth [the] priest like/as to boil [the] flesh and [the] fork three [the] tooth: prong in/on/with hand his
14 [He] would stick the fork into [the meat in] the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take [and give it] to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh [to offer sacrifices].
and to smite in/on/with basin or in/on/with pot or in/on/with caldron or in/on/with pot all which to ascend: establish [the] fork to take: take [the] priest in/on/with him thus to make: do to/for all Israel [the] to come (in): come there in/on/with Shiloh
15 Furthermore, before the fat [on the meat] was [cut off and] and burned [as a sacrifice to Yahweh], the servant of the priest would [sometimes] come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat [now to take] to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”
also in/on/with before to offer: burn [emph?] [obj] [the] fat and to come (in): come youth [the] priest and to say to/for man [the] to sacrifice to give: give [emph?] flesh to/for to roast to/for priest and not to take: recieve from you flesh to boil that if: except if: except alive
16 If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests [cut off and] burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”
and to say to(wards) him [the] man to offer: burn to offer: burn [emph?] like/as day: today [the] fat and to take: take to/for you like/as as which to desire soul: myself your and to say (not *Q(K)*) for now to give: give and if not to take: take in/on/with force
17 Yahweh considered that the young [sons of Eli] were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.
and to be sin [the] youth great: large much with face: before LORD for to spurn [the] human [obj] offering LORD
18 As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest [like the Supreme Priest wore].
and Samuel to minister with face: before LORD youth to gird ephod linen
19 Each year his mother made a [new] little robe for him and took it to him when she went up [to Shiloh] with her husband to offer a sacrifice.
and robe small to make to/for him mother his and to ascend: establish to/for him from day: year day: year [to] in/on/with to ascend: rise she with man: husband her to/for to sacrifice [obj] sacrifice [the] day: year
20 Then Eli would [ask God to] bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.
and to bless Eli [obj] Elkanah and [obj] woman: wife his and to say to set: put LORD to/for you seed: children from [the] woman [the] this underneath: instead [the] petition which to ask to/for LORD and to go: went to/for place his
21 And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three [other] sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh [in the Sacred Tent].
for to reckon: visit LORD [obj] Hannah and to conceive and to beget three son: child and two daughter and to magnify [the] youth Samuel with LORD
22 Eli became very old. He often heard about all the [evil] things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they [sometimes] (slept with/had sex with) the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where [God] spoke to [his people].
and Eli be old much and to hear: hear [obj] all which to make: do [emph?] son: child his to/for all Israel and [obj] which to lie down: have sex [emph?] [obj] [the] woman [the] to serve entrance tent meeting
23 He said to them, “(It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?) [RHQ] Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.
and to say to/for them to/for what? to make: do [emph?] like/as Chronicles [the] these which I to hear: hear [obj] Chronicles your bad: evil from with all [the] people these
24 My sons, stop it! The reports [about you] that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible [EUP]!
not son: child my for not pleasant [the] tidings which I to hear: hear to pass people LORD
25 If one person sins against another person, God can (intercede/act as a referee) between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] (intercede/act as a referee) between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided [that someone should] them.
if to sin man to/for man and to pray him God and if to/for LORD to sin man who? to pray to/for him and not to hear: hear to/for voice father their for to delight in LORD to/for to die them
26 The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.
and [the] youth Samuel to go: continue and growing and be pleasing also with LORD and also with human
27 One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.
and to come (in): come man God to(wards) Eli and to say to(wards) him thus to say LORD to reveal: reveal to reveal: reveal to(wards) house: household father your in/on/with to be they in/on/with Egypt to/for house: household Pharaoh
28 From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him [and his male descendants] to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron [as they worked] for me. And I declared that they could take [and eat some of the meat] that the Israeli people burned [on the altar].
and to choose [obj] him from all tribe Israel to/for me to/for priest to/for to ascend: rise upon altar my to/for to offer: burn incense to/for to lift: bear ephod to/for face: before my and to give: give [emph?] to/for house: household father your [obj] all food offering son: descendant/people Israel
29 So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded [the people to bring] to me [RHQ]? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’
to/for what? to kick in/on/with sacrifice my and in/on/with offering my which to command habitation and to honor: honour [obj] son: child your from me to/for to fatten you from first: best all offering Israel to/for people my
30 “Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve [IDM] me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.
to/for so utterance LORD God Israel to say to say house: household your and house: household father your to go: walk to/for face: before my till forever: enduring and now utterance LORD forbid to/for me for to honor: honour me to honor: honour and to despise me to lighten
31 Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong [young men] in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will [live long enough to] become old men.
behold day to come (in): come and to cut down/off [obj] arm your and [obj] arm house: household father your from to be old in/on/with house: household your
32 You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to [the other people in] Israel. And [I repeat that] no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.
and to look narrow habitation in/on/with all which be good [obj] Israel and not to be old in/on/with house: household your all [the] day: always
33 There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.
and man not to cut: eliminate to/for you from from with altar my to/for to end: destroy [obj] eye your and to/for to grieve [obj] soul your and all greatness house: household your to die human
34 And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you [that all that I have said will come true/happen].
and this to/for you [the] sign: miraculous which to come (in): come to(wards) two son: child your to(wards) Hophni and Phinehas in/on/with day one to die two their
35 ‘have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want [DOU] him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants [IDM] who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.
and to arise: establish to/for me priest be faithful like/as as which in/on/with heart my and in/on/with soul my to make: do and to build to/for him house: household be faithful (and to go: walk *LAH(b)*) to/for face: before anointed my all [the] day: always
36 All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may [earn some money to] buy some food.”’”
and to be all [the] to remain in/on/with house: household your to come (in): come to/for to bow to/for him to/for piece silver: money and talent food: bread and to say to attach me please to(wards) one [the] priesthood to/for to eat morsel food: bread
