Discovery Box| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:18 |
| Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:23 |
| He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these 1 people. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:29 |
| Why are you 1 scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? 2 You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’ |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:30 |
| Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say 1 that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve 2 me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! 3 For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed! |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:35 |
| Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty 1 and he will serve my chosen one for all time. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 2:36 |
| Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money 1 and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, ‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’” |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:1 |
| Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. 1 Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:7 |
| Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord; the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:12 |
| On that day I will carry out 1 against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish! |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:17 |
| Eli 1 said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely 2 if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!” |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:18 |
| So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli 1 said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:19 |
| Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. 1 |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 3:21 |
| Then the Lord again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the Lord had revealed himself to Samuel 1 through the word of the Lord. 2 |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 4:1 |
| Samuel revealed the word of the Lord 1 to all Israel.Then the Israelites went out to fight the Philistines. 2 They camped at Ebenezer, 3 and the Philistines camped at Aphek. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 4:13 |
| When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of 1 the road, for he was very worried 2 about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, 3 the whole city cried out. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 4:18 |
| When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli 1 fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he 2 was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 6:2 |
| the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.” |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 6:9 |
| But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.” |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 6:15 |
| The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. |
| (1.00) | 1Sa 7:3 |
| Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. 1 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 2 from the hand of the Philistines.” |
