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1 Samuel · read by Larry Ainsworth
36 verses, in order. Only the verses Larry read aloud are shown.
1 Samuel 1
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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and said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!"Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
1 Samuel 2
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Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORDRead from ESV · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boilingRead from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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And if any man said to him, "The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want," the servant would reply, "No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!"Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD's people.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
1 Samuel 4
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That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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Eli heard the outcry and asked, "Why this commotion?" So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.Read from ESV · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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"I have just come from the battle," the man said to Eli. "I fled from there today." "What happened, my son?" Eli asked.Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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The messenger answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured."Read from NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6
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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 NASB1995 · The Walk of Faith - Part 6