Reformation Directory

1 The song of Hannáh 12 The sonnes of Elí, wicked. 13 The newe custome of the Priests 18 Samuél ministreth before the Lord 20 Elí blesseth Elkanáh and his wife 23 Elí reproveth his sonnes 27 God sendeth a Prophet to Elí. 31 Elí is menaced for not chastising his children.

1.And Hannáh ^apraied, and said, Mine heart rejoyceth in the Lord, mine ^bhorne is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is ^cenlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoyce in thy salvacion.

2.There is none holy as the Lord: yea, there is none besides thee, and there is no God like our God.

3.Speake ^dno more presumpteously: let not arrogancie come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him enterprises are established.

4.The bowe and the mightie men are broken, and the weake have girde them selves with strength.

5.Thei that were ful, are hired forthe for ^ebread, and the hongrie are no more hired, so that the baren hathe borne ^seven: and she that had many children, is feble.

6.*The Lord killeth and maketh alive: bringeth downe to the grave and raiseth up.

7.The Lord maketh poore and maketh riche: bringeth lowe, and exalteth.

8.*He reiseth up the poore out of the dust, and lifeth up the begger from the donghil, to set them among ^fprinces, and to make them inherit the seat of glorie: for the pillers of the earth are the ^gLord’s, & he hathe set the worlde upon them.

9.He wil kepe the fete of his Sainctes, and the wicked shal kepe silence in darckenes: for in his owne might shal no man be strong.

10.The Lord’s adversaries shal be destroyed, and out of heaven shal he *thunder upon them: the Lord shal judge the ends of the worlde, and shal give power unto his ^hKing, and exalte the horne of his Anointed.

11.And Elkanáh went to Ramáh to his house, and the childe did minister unto the Lord ⁱbefore Elí the Priest.

12.¶ Now the sonnes of Elí were wicked men and ^kknewe not the Lord.

13.For the Priest’s custome toward the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priests ^boy came, while the flesh was seething and a fleshoke with thre teth in his hand,

14.And thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldren, or into the pan, or into the pot: ^lall that the fleshoke broght up, the Priest toke for him self: thus thei did unto all the Israelites, that came thether to Shilóh.

15.Yea, before they burnt the ^mfat, the Priest’s boy came and said to the man that offred, Give me flesh to rost for the Priest: for he wil not have sodden flesh of thee, but rawe.

16.And if any man said unto him, Let them burne the fat according to the ^custome, then take as muche as thine heart ⁿdesireth: then he wolde answer, No, but thou shalt give it now: and if thou wilt not, I wil take it by force.

17.Therefore the sinne of the yong men was very great before the Lord: for men ^oabhorred the offring of the Lord.

18.¶ Now Samuél being a yong childe ministred before the Lord, girded with a linnen *Ephód.

19.And his mother made him a litle coate, and broght it to him from yere to yere, when she came up with her housband, to offer the yerely sacrifice.

20.And Elí blessed Elkanáh and his wife, and said, The Lord give thee sede of this woman, for ^the peticion that she asked of the Lord: and they departed unto their place.

21.And the Lord visited Hannáh, so that she conceived, and bare thre sonnes, and two daughters. And the childe Samuél grewe before the Lord.

22.¶ So Elí was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did unto all Israél, & how they laye with the women that ^passembled at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregacion.

23.And he said unto them, Why do-ye suche things? for of all this people I heare evil reportes of you.

24.Do no more, my sonnes: for it is no good reporte that I heare, which is, that ye make the Lord’s people to ^qtrespasse.

25.If one man sinne against an other, the judge shal judge it: but if a man sinne against the Lord, who wil pleade for him? Notwithstanding they obeied not the voyce of their father, because the Lord ^rwolde slaye them.

26.¶ (Now the childe Samuél profited and grewe and was in favour bothe with the Lord, and also with men)

27.And there came a man of God unto Elí and said unto him, Thus saieth the Lord, Did not I plainely appeare unto the house of thy ^sfather, when they were in Egypt in Pharoh’s house?

28.And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israél to be my Priest, to offer upon mine altar, and to burne incense, and to weare an Ephód before me, & *I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israél.

29.Wherefore have you ^tkiked against my sacrifice and mine offring, which I commanded in my Tabernacle, and honourest thy children above me, to make your selves fat of the first frutes of all the offrings of Israél my people?

30.Wherefore the Lord God of Israél sayth, I said, that thine house and the house of thy father shulde walke before me for ever: but nowe the Lord saith, ^uIt shal not be so: for them that honour me. I wil honour, and they that despise me, shal be despised.

31.Beholde, the dayes come, that I wil cut of thine ^xarme, and the arme of thy father’s house, that there shal not be an olde man in thine house.

32.And thou ^yshalt se thine enemie in the habitation of the Lord in all things wherewith God shal blesse Israél, and there shal not be an olde man in thine house for ever.

33.Nevertheles, I wil not destroy every one of thine from mine altar, to make thine eyes to faile, and to make thine heart sorowful: and all the multitude of thine house shal ^dye men.

34.And this shalbe a signe unto thee, that shal come upon thy two sonnes Hophní and Phinehás: in one day they shal dye bothe.

35.And I wil sterre me up a ^zfaithful Priest, that shal do according to mine heart and according to my minde: and I wil buylde him a sure house, and he shal walke before mine Anoynted for ever.

36.And all that are left in thine house, shal come and ^abowe downe to him for a piece of silver & a morsel of bread, & shal say, Appoint me, I pray thee, to one of the Priest’s offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

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