1 Samuel.
1 Samuel KWL.
1 Samuel 1.
11 Hanna vowed a vow, saying, “LORD of War, if you see me,
see your maidservant’s affliction. Remember me. Don’t forget your maidservant.
Give your maidservant offspring, a man,
and I give him to the LORD all the days of his life.
A razor will never go upon his head.”
1 Samuel 2.
1 Praying, Hanna said, “My heart is happy in the LORD.”
4 “The experts’ bows are cracked.
The stumblers are belted with courage.
5 The well-fed have hired themselves out for bread.
7 “The LORD makes people either destitute or rich.
Some he lays low; some he exalts.
8 He lifts the poor from the dirt.
He exalts the needy from the landfill.
He puts them in the seat of rich patrons.
He assigns them positions of honor.
For the things which hold up the earth are the LORD’s.
He set them up.”
1 Samuel 3.
1 The boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli’s face.
The LORD’s word was valuable. In those days, there was no breakthrough vision.
2 In that day Eli laid down in his room.
His eyes had begun to dim, unable to see.
3 Samuel laid down in the LORD’s sanctuary, where God’s ark was, before God’s lamp was put out.
4 The LORD called Samuel, saying, “Look at me.”
5 Samuel ran to Eli, saying, “Look at me; you called me.”
Eli said, “I didn’t call. Go back. Lie down.” Samuel walked back and laid down.
6 The LORD called yet again: “Samuel.”
Samuel stood and walked to Eli, saying, “Look at me; you called me.”
Eli said, “I didn’t call, my son. Go back. Lie down.”
7 Samuel hadn’t yet met the LORD,
who hadn’t yet revealed the LORD’s word to him.
8 The LORD called Samuel again a third time.
Samuel stood and walked to Eli, saying, “Look at me; you called me.”
Eli realized the LORD called the boy, 9 and Eli told Samuel, “Go lie down.
If he happens to call you, say, ‘Speak, LORD: Your slave hears you.’ ”
Samuel walked back and laid down in the LORD’s room.
10 The LORD came, stood there, and did as he did before: “Samuel. Samuel.”
Samuel said, “Speak: Your slave hears you.”
1 Samuel 8.
7 The LORD told Samuel, “Hear the people’s voice? All they tell you?
It’s because they’ve not rejected you; they rejected me from reigning over them.
8 All the works they’ve done, from the day I brought them from Egypt to this day:
They abandoned me. They served other gods. They’re doing it to you too.
9 Now hear their voice. But when you do, warn, warn them.
Tell them the nature of a king’s judgment, which’ll reign over them.”
11 Samuel said, “This is the nature of a king’s judgment, which’ll reign over you:
He takes your sons.
He sets them in his chariots, on his horses, and as runners before his chariots.
12 He sets up chiefs over armies and chiefs over companies.
Some are to plow his plowing and reap his reaping.
Others are to make his war-weapons and chariot-weapons.
13 He takes your daughters to make perfume, cook, and bake.
14 He takes your fields. Your vineyards. Your olives.
He gives the good stuff to his slaves.
15 He tithes your seed and vineyards, and gives it to his eunuchs and slaves.
16 He takes your slaves, maids, the good young men, the donkeys, and makes them do his work.
17 He tithes your flocks. You’re as good as slaves to him.
18 On that day, you’ll cry out from the presence of your king whom you chose for yourselves.
On that day, the LORD won’t answer you.”
1 Samuel 9.
9 In the past, in Israel, a man said this when he went to seek God: “Walk, walk to the seer.”
For “the prophet” today was “the seer” in the past.
1 Samuel 21.
1 David came to Nov, to Head Priest Akhimelékh. Akhimelékh shuddered in fear to meet David.
He told David, “Why are you alone, with no man with you?”
2 David told Priest Akhimelékh, “The king commanded me with a word.
He told me, ‘No man must know any of the word I send and command you with.’
I made a certain place, a certain person, known to my slaves.
3 Now, what’s there under your hand? Five loaves? Give them to my hand. Or I’ll find something.”
4 In reply the priest told David, “No secular bread is under my hand, for if there’s bread, it’s holy.
But only if the slaves kept themselves from women.”
5 In reply David told the priest, “If there were women, they were kept from me since yesterday—
I went out the day before yesterday.
The slaves’ gear is holy, though the task is secular.
In fact, on that day, the gear was consecrated.”
6 The priest gave him holy bread, for there wasn’t bread other than bread of God’s presence,
taken away from the LORD’s presence to be replaced with hot bread on the day David took it.
1 Samuel 25.
39 David heard Navál died, and said, “Bless the LORD, who fought my fight,
my slander from Navál’s hand, and spared his servant from evil.
The LORD turned back Navál’s evil to his own head.”
So David sent for and spoke with Avigayíl, to take her as his woman.