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1 Samuel · read by Keith Daniel
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1 Samuel 1
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He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.Read from ESV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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Because the LORD had closed Hannah's womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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"Hannah, why are you crying?" her husband Elkanah asked. "Why won't you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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And she made a vow, pleading, "O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head."Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunkRead from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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"No, my lord," Hannah replied. "I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief."Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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"Go in peace," Eli replied, "and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him."Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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"May your maidservant find favor with you," said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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but Hannah did not go. "After the boy is weaned," she said to her husband, "I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently."Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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"Do what you think is best," her husband Elkanah replied, "and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word." So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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"Please, my lord," said Hannah, "as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD." So they worshiped the LORD there.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
1 Samuel 2
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Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORDRead from KJV · Don't Let the Past Cripple the Future
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD's people.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
1 Samuel 3
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And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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but Eli called to him and said, "Samuel, my son." "Here I am," answered Samuel.Read from KJV · 1 Samuel 1-3
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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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 KJV · The Child Samuel
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And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel's words fall to the ground.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
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And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.Read from KJV · The Child Samuel
1 Samuel 8
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When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.Read from NKJV · The Tragic Life of King Saul
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But when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.Read from KJV · Don't Play The Fool With God
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And the LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.Read from KJV · Don't Play The Fool With God
1 Samuel 15
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When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, "May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD's instructions."Read from KJV · Don't Play The Fool With God
1 Samuel 17
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And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!"Read from KJV · Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear
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But Saul replied, "You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth."Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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David replied, "Your servant has been tending his father's sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,Read from KJV · Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear
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I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God."Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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David added, "The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." "Go," said Saul, "and may the LORD be with you."Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. "I cannot walk in these," David said to Saul. "I am not accustomed to them." So David took them off.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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"Am I a dog," he said to David, "that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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"Come here," he called to David, "and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!"Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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But David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.Read from KJV · Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear
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And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and He will give all of you into our hands."Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.Read from KJV · The Five Smooth Stones
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David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine's sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.Read from KJV · Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear
1 Samuel 18
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and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.Read from KJV · (Mount Vernon) Daniel
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When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.Read from KJV · (Montana) Daniel