The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Devistater]

1 Samuel 2:31 (NIV)

The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line...

 

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1 Samuel 2:32
King James Version(KJV)

32.)And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

 

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1 Samuel 2:33 (NASB)
[SUP]33 [/SUP] 'Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 2:34
King James Version(KJV)

34.)And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

 

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1 Samuel 2:35 (NASB)
[SUP]35 [/SUP] 'But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 2:36
New International Version (NIV)

Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.”’”

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 3:1 (NASB)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD before Eli. And word from the LORD was rare in those days, visions were infrequent.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 3:2
New International Version (NIV)

One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 3:3
King James Version(KJV)

3.)And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep

 

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4 [FONT=&quot]That the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.[/FONT]

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 3:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, lie down again." So he went and lay down.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 3:6
New International Version (NIV)

Again the LORD called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”


“My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”

 

[phil36]

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD: The word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

1 Samuel 3:7 NIV

 

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1 Samuel 3:8
King James Version(KJV)

8.)And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 3:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] And Eli said to Samuel, "Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 3:10
New International Version (NIV)

The LORD came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”


Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

 

[seed_time_harvest]

1 Samuel 3:11
King James Version(KJV)

11.)And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

 

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1 Samuel 3:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] "In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 3:13
New International Version (NIV)

For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[a] and he failed to restrain them.

a. An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text sons made themselves contemptible

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 3:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] "Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever."