SAMUEL

Passages on this topic · 136

• 1 Samuel 1:7

  As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.

• 1 Samuel 1:8

  Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

• 1 Samuel 1:10

  She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

• 1 Samuel 1:12

  As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

• 1 Samuel 1:14

  Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

• 1 Samuel 1:15

  Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 1:16

  Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

• 1 Samuel 1:17

  Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

• 1 Samuel 1:18

  She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

• 1 Samuel 1:19

  They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

• 1 Samuel 1:20

  When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 1:22

  But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

• 1 Samuel 1:25

  They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

• 1 Samuel 1:26

  She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 1:27

  I prayed for this child; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 1:28

  Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 2:1

  Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

• 1 Samuel 2:2

  There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 1 Samuel 2:8

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 2:11

  Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

• 1 Samuel 2:18

  But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 2:19

  Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

• 1 Samuel 2:21

  Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 3:1

  The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was precious in those days. There visions were not frequent.

• 1 Samuel 3:2

  At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

• 1 Samuel 3:3

  and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in Yahweh’s temple, where God’s ark was;

• 1 Samuel 3:4

  Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, “Here I am.”

• 1 Samuel 3:5

  He ran to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He said, “I didn’t call. Lie down again.” He went and lay down.

• 1 Samuel 3:6

  Yahweh called yet again, “Samuel!” Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” He answered, “I didn’t call, my son. Lie down again.”

• 1 Samuel 3:7

  Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.

• 1 Samuel 3:8

  Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.

• 1 Samuel 3:9

  Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down. It shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

• 1 Samuel 3:10

  Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”

• 1 Samuel 3:11

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

• 1 Samuel 3:12

  In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

• 1 Samuel 3:13

  For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

• 1 Samuel 3:14

  Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

• 1 Samuel 3:15

  Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of Yahweh’s house. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

• 1 Samuel 3:16

  Then Eli called Samuel, and said, “Samuel, my son!” He said, “Here I am.”

• 1 Samuel 3:17

  He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”

• 1 Samuel 3:18

  Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

• 1 Samuel 3:19

  Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 3:20

  All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 3:21

  Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by Yahweh’s word.

• 1 Samuel 4:1

  The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

• 1 Samuel 7:4

  Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

• 1 Samuel 7:5

  Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you.”

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 7:7

  When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 7:8

  The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 7:9

  Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

• 1 Samuel 7:10

  As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.

• 1 Samuel 7:11

  The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.

• 1 Samuel 7:12

  Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

• 1 Samuel 7:13

  So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. Yahweh’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

• 1 Samuel 7:14

  The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

• 1 Samuel 7:15

  Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

• 1 Samuel 7:17

  His return was to Ramah, for his house was there; and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.

• 1 Samuel 8:1

  When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 8:2

  Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 8:5

  They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

• 1 Samuel 8:6

  But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:7

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

• 1 Samuel 8:8

  According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

• 1 Samuel 8:9

  Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

• 1 Samuel 8:10

  Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.

• 1 Samuel 8:11

  He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:12

  He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:13

  He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

• 1 Samuel 8:14

  He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:15

  He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:16

  He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

• 1 Samuel 8:17

  He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:18

  You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

• 1 Samuel 8:19

  But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

• 1 Samuel 8:20

  that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

• 1 Samuel 8:21

  Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:22

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”

• 1 Samuel 9:10

  Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.

• 1 Samuel 11:12

  The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

• 1 Samuel 11:13

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 11:14

  Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”

• 1 Samuel 11:15

  All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

• 1 Samuel 12:1

  Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

• 1 Samuel 12:2

  Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

• 1 Samuel 12:5

  He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

• 1 Samuel 13:11

  Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

• 1 Samuel 13:12

  therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”

• 1 Samuel 13:13

  Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

• 1 Samuel 13:14

  But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”

• 1 Samuel 13:15

  Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

• 1 Samuel 19:18

  Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 28:3

  Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits the wizards, out of the land.

• 1 Samuel 28:4

  The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

• 1 Samuel 28:5

  When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

• 1 Samuel 28:6

  When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.

• 1 Samuel 28:7

  Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.” His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”

• 1 Samuel 28:8

  Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

• 1 Samuel 28:9

  The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”

• 1 Samuel 28:10

  Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”

• 1 Samuel 28:11

  Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?” He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”

• 1 Samuel 28:12

  When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”

• 1 Samuel 28:13

  The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”

• 1 Samuel 28:14

  He said to her, “What does he look like?” She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.

• 1 Samuel 28:15

  Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

• 1 Samuel 28:16

  Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

• 1 Samuel 28:17

  Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

• 1 Samuel 28:19

  Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 28:20

  Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long.

• 1 Chronicles 6:28

  The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.

• 1 Chronicles 6:33

  These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

• 1 Chronicles 9:22

  All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred twelve. These were listed by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.

• 1 Chronicles 26:28

  All that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brothers.

• 1 Chronicles 29:29

  Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

• 2 Chronicles 35:18

  There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Psalms 99:6

  Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.

• Jeremiah 15:1

  Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

• Hebrews 11:32

  What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;