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1 Samuel · read by James Jennings
73 verses, in order. Only the verses James read aloud are shown.
1 Samuel 2
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Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORDRead from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD's offering with contempt.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, "May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD. " Then they would go home.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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"Why are you doing these things?" Eli said to his sons. "I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD's people.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father's house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh's house?Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.'Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that no older man will be left in your house.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, "Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread."'"Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
1 Samuel 3
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And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Then the LORD called to Samuel, and he answered, "Here I am."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you have called me." "I did not call," Eli replied. "Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Once again the LORD called, "Samuel!" So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you have called me." "My son, I did not call," Eli replied. "Go back and lie down."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you have called me." Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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"Go and lie down," he said to Samuel, "and if He calls you, say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Then the LORD came and stood there, calling as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered, "Speak, for Your servant is listening."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Then the LORD said to Samuel, "I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, 'The iniquity of Eli's house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.'"Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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"What was the message He gave you?" Eli asked. "Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. "He is the LORD," replied Eli. "Let Him do what is good in His eyes."Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
1 Samuel 4
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Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
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As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.Read from ESV · Abuse and Immorality Among Religious Leaders
1 Samuel 5
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After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon."Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!" For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
1 Samuel 6
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Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
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Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.Read from ESV · Suppressing The Truth in Unrighteousness
1 Samuel 12
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Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.Read from ESV · Guided By God For God's Glory
1 Samuel 23
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And Saul's son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,Read from ESV · Importance of Strengthening One Another
1 Samuel 25
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When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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His name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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So David sent ten young men and instructed them, "Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my nameRead from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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and say to him, 'Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.'"Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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When David's young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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But Nabal asked them, "Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?"Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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So David's men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Meanwhile, one of Nabal's young men informed Nabal's wife Abigail, "Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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and said to her young men, "Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Now David had just finished saying, "In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light."Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, "Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request."Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone.Read from ESV · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail
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About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.Read from NASB1995 · David Is Kept From Sin By the Lord Sending Abigail