{"id":2262,"date":"2022-05-03T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2022-05-03T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:43:55","slug":"1-samuel-2-hannah-prayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temtube.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 2 Hannah prayed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar-container\"><div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 Samuel 2 Hannah prayed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PD6sDemsSS4?start=8&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PD6sDemsSS4&amp;t=8s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PD6sDemsSS4&amp;t=8s<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"youtube-subscribe-bar\" style=\"color: #ffffff;background-color: #1b1b1b;\">\n\t\t\t<div>Please consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t<iframe\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscribe_embed?usegapi=1&amp;channelid=UCAxkC8h9g4fhxldTECUgIsg&amp;layout=default&amp;theme=default&amp;count=default&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1Hannah prayed: I\u2019m bursting with God-news! I\u2019m walking on air. I\u2019m laughing at my rivals. I\u2019m dancing my salvation. 2-5Nothing and no one is holy like God, no rock mountain like our God. Don\u2019t dare talk pretentiously\u2014 not a word of boasting, ever! For God knows what\u2019s going on. He takes the measure of everything that happens. The weapons of the strong are smashed to pieces, while the weak are infused with fresh strength. The well-fed are out begging in the streets for crusts, while the hungry are getting second helpings. The barren woman has a houseful of children, while the mother of many is bereft. 6-10 God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up. He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives\u2014 a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God\u2019s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! God\u2019s enemies will be blasted out of the sky, crashed in a heap and burned. God will set things right all over the earth, he\u2019ll give strength to his king, he\u2019ll set his anointed on top of the world! 11Elkanah went home to Ramah. The boy stayed and served God in the company of Eli the priest. Samuel Serves God 12-17Eli\u2019s own sons were nothing but trouble. They didn\u2019t know God and could not have cared less about the customs of priests among the people. Ordinarily, when someone offered a sacrifice, the priest\u2019s servant was supposed to come up and, while the meat was boiling, stab a three-pronged fork into the cooking pot. The priest then got whatever came up on the fork. But this is how Eli\u2019s sons treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices to God. Before they had even burned the fat to God, the priest\u2019s servant would interrupt whoever was sacrificing and say, \u201cHand over some of that meat for the priest to roast. He doesn\u2019t like boiled meat; he likes his rare.\u201d If the man objected, \u201cFirst let the fat be burned\u2014God\u2019s portion!\u2014then take all you want,\u201d the servant would demand, \u201cNo, I want it now. If you won\u2019t give it, I\u2019ll take it.\u201d It was a horrible sin these young servants were committing\u2014and right in the presence of God!\u2014desecrating the holy offerings to God. 18-20In the midst of all this, Samuel, a boy dressed in a priestly linen tunic, served God. Additionally, every year his mother would make him a little robe cut to his size and bring it to him when she and her husband came for the annual sacrifice. Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, \u201cGod give you children to replace this child you have dedicated to God.\u201d Then they would go home. 21 God was most especially kind to Hannah. She had three more sons and two daughters! The boy Samuel stayed at the sanctuary and grew up with God. A Hard Life with Many Tears 22-25a By this time Eli was very old. He kept getting reports on how his sons were ripping off the people and sleeping with the women who helped out at the sanctuary. Eli called them out: \u201cWhat\u2019s going on here? Why are you doing these things? I hear story after story of your corrupt and evil carrying on. Oh, my sons, this is not right! These are terrible reports I\u2019m getting, stories spreading right and left among God\u2019s people! If you sin against another person, there\u2019s help\u2014God\u2019s help. But if you sin against God, who is around to help?\u201d 25b-26 But they were far gone in disobedience and refused to listen to a thing their father said. So God, who was fed up with them, decreed their death. But the boy Samuel was very much alive, growing up, blessed by God and popular with the people. 27-30A holy man came to Eli and said: \u201cThis is God\u2019s message: I revealed myself openly to your ancestors when they were Pharaoh\u2019s slaves in Egypt. Out of all the tribes of Israel, I chose your family to be my priests: to preside at the Altar, to burn incense, to wear the priestly robes in my presence. I put your ancestral family in charge of all the sacrificial offerings of Israel. So why do you now treat as mere loot these very sacrificial offerings that I commanded for my worship? Why do you treat your sons better than me, turning them loose to get fat on these offerings, and ignoring me? Therefore\u2014this is God\u2019s word, the God of Israel speaking\u2014I once said that you and your ancestral family would be my priests indefinitely, but now\u2014God\u2019s word, remember!\u2014there is no way this can continue. I honor those who honor me; those who scorn me I demean. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa05lZU4wWGN1T0FXX1JyZ2ZRNk9pRHpCclpLd3xBQ3Jtc0tsSnJXc3NDQ0lTR0tqa2V6UHhMN3J5YUEzZnRGZmtZaS1KX3N0TnYtOFViNWZGWnVaaTBOMmdGTVZQdzlMcVgzNFdpRV9fTW5DeW9kQWxIRnVHUjNDV3JFOExNWUo5T1Q0eko0TnAwQVNlS3ptTFdZaw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftemtube.com%2F&amp;v=PD6sDemsSS4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/temtube.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1Hannah prayed: I\u2019m bursting with God-news! I\u2019m walking on air. I\u2019m laughing at my rivals. I\u2019m dancing my salvation. 2-5Nothing and no one is holy like God, no rock mountain like our God. Don\u2019t dare talk pretentiously\u2014 not a word of boasting, ever! For God knows what\u2019s going on. 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