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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.34.7"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As she kept on praying to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, Eli observed her mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and said to her, &#8220;How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Not so, my lord,&#8221; Hannah replied, &#8220;I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.1.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Eli answered, &#8220;Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.1.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She said, &#8220;May your servant find favor in your eyes.&#8221; Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.1.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> remembered her. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Samuel </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">heard by God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;Because I asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hannah Dedicates Samuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.1.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to fulfill his vow, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, &#8220;After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will live there always.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:22 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">always. I have dedicated him as a Nazirite&#8212;all the days of his life.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.1.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do what seems best to you,&#8221; her husband Elkanah told her. &#8220;Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make good his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">your</span></span></span><span class="content"> word.&#8221; So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.1.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">with three bulls</span></span></span><span class="content"> an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and she said to him, &#8220;Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I prayed for this child, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has granted me what I asked of him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So now I give him to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For his whole life he will be given over to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; And he worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Hannah prayed and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">&#8220;My heart rejoices in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my horn</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength; also in verse 10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is lifted high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">My mouth boasts over my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">for I delight in your deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one holy like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no one besides you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no Rock like our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not keep talking so proudly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">or let your mouth speak such arrogance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a God who knows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">and by him deeds are weighed.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The bows of the warriors are broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="content">but those who stumbled are armed with strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who were full hire themselves out for food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but those who were hungry are hungry no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">She who was barren has borne seven children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but she who has had many sons pines away.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brings death and makes alive;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="content">he brings down to the grave and raises up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sends poverty and wealth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="content">he humbles and he exalts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He raises the poor from the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and lifts the needy from the ash heap;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">he seats them with princes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and has them inherit a throne of honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;For the foundations of the earth are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">on them he has set the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will guard the feet of his faithful servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not by strength that one prevails;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">those who oppose the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">The Most High will thunder from heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will judge the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">&#8220;He will give strength to his king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">and exalt the horn of his anointed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"></span></div>
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