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<h2>The First Book of</h2>
<h1>Samuel</h1>
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">1 Samuel 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of mount Ephraim, and
his name was Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son
of Thohu, the son of Suph, an Ephraimite:</span></li>
<li><span>And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the
name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no
children.</span></li>
<li><span>And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed
days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo.
And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave
to Phenenna his wife, and to all her sons and daughters,
portions:</span></li>
<li><span>But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he
loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb.</span></li>
<li><span>Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her
exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had
shut up her womb:</span></li>
<li><span>And thus she did every year, when the time returned that
they went up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her:
but Anna wept, and did not eat.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Elcana her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest
thou? and why dost thou not eat? And why dost thou afflict thy
heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children?</span></li>
<li><span>So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And
Heli the priest sitting upon a stool, before the door of the temple
of the Lord:</span></li>
<li><span>As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the
Lord, shedding many tears,</span></li>
<li><span>And she made a vow, saying: O Lord, of hosts, if thou
wilt look down on the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be
mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy
servant a man child: I will give him to the Lord all the days of
his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the
Lord, that Heli observed her mouth.</span></li>
<li><span>Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but
her voice was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be
drunk,</span></li>
<li><span>And said to her: How long wilt thou, be drunk? digest a
little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much.</span></li>
<li><span>Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an
exceeding unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong
drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of
Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I
spoken till now.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel
grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.</span></li>
<li><span>And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in
thy eyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her
countenance was no more changed.</span></li>
<li><span>And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the
Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And
Elcana knew Anna his wife: and the Lord remembered her.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna
conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she
had asked him of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elcana her husband went up, and all his house, to
offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.</span></li>
<li><span>But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will
not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he
may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elcana her husband said to her: Do what seemeth good
to thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may
fulfil his word. So the woman stayed at home, and gave her son
suck, till she weaned him.</span></li>
<li><span>And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her,
with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of
wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the
child was as yet very young:</span></li>
<li><span>And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to
Heli.</span></li>
<li><span>And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul
liveth, my lord: I am that woman who stood before thee here praying
to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me
my petition, which I asked of him.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days
of his life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord
there. And Anna prayed, and said:</span></li>
</ol>
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<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">1 Samuel 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is
exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I
have joyed in thy salvation.</span></li>
<li><span>There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other
beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.</span></li>
<li><span>Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old
matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all
knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.</span></li>
<li><span>The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt
with strength.</span></li>
<li><span>They that were full before have hired out themselves for
bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne
many: and she that had many children is weakened.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to
hell and bringeth back again.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he
exalteth.</span></li>
<li><span>He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the
poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the
throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and
upon them he hath set the world.</span></li>
<li><span>He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall
be silent in darkness, because no man shall prevail by his own
strength.</span></li>
<li><span>The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them
shall he thunder in the heavens. The Lord shall judge the ends of
the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt
the horn of his Christ.</span></li>
<li><span>And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child
ministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the
priest.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing
the Lord,</span></li>
<li><span>Nor the office of the priests to the people: but
whosoever had offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came,
while the flesh was in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in
his hand,</span></li>
<li><span>And thrust it into the kettle, or into the caldron, or
into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought
up, the priest took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that
came to Silo.</span></li>
<li><span>Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest
came, and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil
for the priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but
raw.</span></li>
<li><span>And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be
burnt to day according to the custom, and then take as much as thy
soul desireth. But he answered and said to him: Not so: but thou
shalt give it me now, or else I will take it by force.</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great
before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being
a child girded with a linen ephod.</span></li>
<li><span>And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought
to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to
offer the solemn sacrifice.</span></li>
<li><span>And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him:
The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent
to the Lord. And they went to their own home.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore
three sons and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great
before the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did
to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the
door of the tabernacle:</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things,
which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?</span></li>
<li><span>Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear,
that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.</span></li>
<li><span>If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased
in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall
pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father,
because the Lord would slay them.</span></li>
<li><span>But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased
both the Lord and men.</span></li>
<li><span>And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him:
Thus saith the Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father's
house, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharao?</span></li>
<li><span>And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to go up to my sitar, and burn incense to me, and to wear
the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the
sacrifices of the children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I
commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather
honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every
sacrifice of my people Israel?</span></li>
<li><span>Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said
indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father should minister
in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me:
but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that
despise me, shall be despised.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the
arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in
thy house.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the
prosperity of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy
house for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>However I will not altogether take away a man of thee
from my altar: but that thy eyes may faint and thy soul be spent:
and a great part of thy house shall die when they come to man's
estate.</span></li>
<li><span>And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon
thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: In one day they shall both of them
die.</span></li>
<li><span>And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do
according to my heart, and my soul, and I will build him a faithful
house, and he shall walk all days before my anointed.</span></li>
<li><span>And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in
thy house, shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a
piece of silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I
beseech thee, to somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a
morsel of bread.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">1 Samuel 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli,
and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no
manifest vision.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place,
and his eyes were grown dim, that he could not see:</span></li>
<li><span>Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the
temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am
I.</span></li>
<li><span>And he ran to Heli and said: Here am I: for thou didst
call me. He said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went
and slept.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and
went to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He
answered: I did not call thee, my son: return and
sleep.</span></li>
<li><span>Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the
word of the Lord been revealed to him.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he
arose up and went to Heli.</span></li>
<li><span>And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli
understood that the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel:
Go, and sleep: and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say:
Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and slept in
his place.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord came and stood: and he called, as he had
called the other times: Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak,
Lord, for thy servant heareth.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in
Israel: and whosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall
tingle.</span></li>
<li><span>In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I
have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an
end.</span></li>
<li><span>For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house
for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly,
and did not chastise them.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore have I sworn to the house of Hell, that the
iniquity of his house shall not be expiated with victims nor
offerings for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of
the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to
Hell.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he
answered: Here am I.</span></li>
<li><span>And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath
spoken to thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so
and so to thee, and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of
all that were said to thee.</span></li>
<li><span>So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them
from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good
in his sight.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one
of his words fell to the ground.</span></li>
<li><span>And all Israel from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was
a faithful prophet of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for the Lord
revealed himself to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of the
Lord. And the word of Samuel came to pass to all
Israel.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">1 Samuel 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines
gathered themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war
against the Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the
Philistines came to Aphec,</span></li>
<li><span>And put their army in array against Israel. And when they
had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines,
and there was slain in that fight here and there in the fields
about four thousand men.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of
Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the
Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the
Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may
save us from the hand of our enemies.</span></li>
<li><span>So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence
the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts sitting upon the
cherubims: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with
the ark of the covenant of God.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come
into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth
rang again.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and
they said: What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the
Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into
the camp.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into
the camp. And sighing, they said:</span></li>
<li><span>Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday and
the day before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of
these high gods? these are the gods that struck Egypt with all the
plagues in the desert.</span></li>
<li><span>Take courage and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest
you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you:
take courage and fight.</span></li>
<li><span>So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and
every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding
great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand
footmen.</span></li>
<li><span>And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli,
Ophni and Phinees, were slain.</span></li>
<li><span>And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came
to Silo the same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed
with dust.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against
the way watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And
when the man was come into the city, he told it: and all the city
cried out.</span></li>
<li><span>And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What
meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and
told Heli.</span></li>
<li><span>Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes
were dim, and he could not see.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle,
and have fled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What
is there done, my son?</span></li>
<li><span>And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel
has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great
slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees,
are dead: and the ark of God is taken.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his
stool backwards by the door, and broke his neck, and died. For he
was an old man, and far advanced in years: and he judged Israel
forty years.</span></li>
<li><span>And his daughter in law the wife of Phinees, was big with
child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God
was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she
bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a
sudden.</span></li>
<li><span>And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood
about her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She
answered them not, nor gave heed to them.</span></li>
<li><span>And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is
gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her
father in law, and her husband:</span></li>
<li><span>And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because
the ark of God was taken.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">1 Samuel 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it
from the Stone of help into Azotus.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it
into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold
Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord:
and they took Dagon, and set him again in his place.</span></li>
<li><span>And the next day again, when they rose in the morning,
they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of
the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands
were cut off upon the threshold:</span></li>
<li><span>And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For
this cause neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the
temple tread on the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this
day.</span></li>
<li><span>And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and
he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with
emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that
country, there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the
confusion of a great mortality in the city.</span></li>
<li><span>And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said:
The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us: for his hand
is heavy upon us, and upon Dagon our god.</span></li>
<li><span>And sending, they gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the
God of Israel? And the Gethrites answered: Let the ark of the God
of Israel be carried about. And they carried the ark of the God of
Israel about.</span></li>
<li><span>And while they were carrying it about, the band of the
Lord came upon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he
smote the men of every city, both small and great, and they had
emerods in their secret parts. And the Gethrites consulted
together, and made themselves seats of skins.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when
the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out,
saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to
kill us and our people.</span></li>
<li><span>They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords
of the Philistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it return into its own place, and not kill us and
our people.</span></li>
<li><span>For there was the fear of death in every city, and the
hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die,
were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up
to heaven.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">1 Samuel 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines
seven months.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines called for the priests and the
diviners, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell
us how we are to send it back to its place? And they
said:</span></li>
<li><span>If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it
not away empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then
you shall be healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not
from you.</span></li>
<li><span>They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for
sin? and they answered:</span></li>
<li><span>According to the number of the provinces of the
Philistines you shall make five golden emerods, and five golden
mice: for the same plague hath been upon you all, and upon your
lords. And you shall make the likeness of your emerods, and the
likeness of the mice that have destroyed the land, and you shall
give glory to the God of Israel: to see if he will take off his
hand from you, and from your gods, and from your land.</span></li>
<li><span>Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao
hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let
them go, and they departed?</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore take and make a new cart: and two kine that
have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and
shut up their calves at home.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the
cart, and the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you
shall put into a little box, at the side thereof: and send it away
that it may go.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own
coasts towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but
if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but
it hath happened by chance.</span></li>
<li><span>They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine,
that had suckling calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up
their calves at home.</span></li>
<li><span>And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the
little box that had in it the golden mice and the likeness of the
emerods.</span></li>
<li><span>And the kine took the straight way that leadeth to
Bethsames, and they went along the way, lowing as they went: and
turned not aside neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the
lords of the Philistines followed them as far as the borders of
Bethsames.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and
lifting up their eyes they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see
it.</span></li>
<li><span>And the cart came into the field of Josue a Bethsamite,
and stood there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in
pieces the wood of the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust
to the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little
box that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold,
and they put them upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames
offered holocausts and sacrificed victims that day to the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they
returned to Accaron the same day.</span></li>
<li><span>And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines
returned for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for
Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Accaron one:</span></li>
<li><span>And the golden mice according to the number of the cities
of the Philistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to
the village that was without wall, and to the great Abel (the
stone) whereon they set down the ark of the Lord, which was till
that day in the field of Josue the Bethsamite.</span></li>
<li><span>But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had
seen the ark of the Lord: and he slew of the people seventy men,
and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented,
because the Lord had smitten the people with a great
slaughter.</span></li>
<li><span>And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand
before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from
us?</span></li>
<li><span>And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of
Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of
the Lord, come ye down and fetch it up to you.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">1 Samuel 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And then men of Cariathiarim came and fetched up the ark
of the Lord and carried it into the house of Abinadab in Gabaa: and
they sanctified Eleazar his son, to keep the ark of the
Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the
Lord abode in Cariathiarim days were multiplied, (for it was now
the twentieth year,) and all the house of Israel rested following
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If
you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods
from among you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto
the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the
hand of the Philistines.</span></li>
<li><span>Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth,
and served the Lord only.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I
may pray to the Lord for you.</span></li>
<li><span>And they gathered together to Masphath: and they drew
water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that
day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And
Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel
were gathered together to Masphath, and the lords of the
Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel
heard this, they were afraid of the Philistines.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our
God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for
a holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel,
and the Lord heard him.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the
holocaust, the Philistines began the battle against Israel: but the
Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the
Philistines, and terrified them, and they were overthrown before
the face of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the men of Israel going out of Masphath pursued after
the Philistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under
Bethchar.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and
Sen: and he called the place, the Stone of help. And he said: Thus
far the Lord hath helped us.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come
any more into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was
against the Philistines, all the days of Samuel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the cities, which the Philistines had taken from
Israel, were restored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their
borders: and he delivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines,
and there was peace between Israel and the Amorrhites.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his
life:</span></li>
<li><span>And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and
to Masphath, and he judged Israel in the aforesaid
places.</span></li>
<li><span>And he returned to Ramatha, for there was his house, and
there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the
Lord.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">1 Samuel 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he
appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name
of the second was Abia, judges in Bersabee.</span></li>
<li><span>And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned
aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted
judgment.</span></li>
<li><span>Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to
Samuel to Ramatha.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons
walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations
have.</span></li>
<li><span>And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that
they should say: Give us a king, to judge us. And Samuel prayed to
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the
people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected
thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.</span></li>
<li><span>According to all their works, they have done from the day
that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have
forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore hearken to their voice: but yet testify to
them, and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign
over them.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people
that had desired a king of him,</span></li>
<li><span>And said: This will be the right of the king, that shall
reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his
chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen
to run before his chariots,</span></li>
<li><span>And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and
centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to
make him arms and chariots.</span></li>
<li><span>Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments,
and to be his cooks, and bakers.</span></li>
<li><span>And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and
your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.</span></li>
<li><span>Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the
revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and
servants.</span></li>
<li><span>Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest
young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his
work.</span></li>
<li><span>Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his
servants.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the
king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not
hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a
king.</span></li>
<li><span>But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and
they said: Nay: but there shall be a king over us.</span></li>
<li><span>And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall
judge us, and go out before us, and tight our battles for
us.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and
rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and
make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every
man go to his city.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">1 Samuel 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now I there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Cis, the
son of Abiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of
Aphia, the son of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.</span></li>
<li><span>And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly
man, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier
person than he: from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all
the people.</span></li>
<li><span>And the asses of Cis, Sauls father, were lost: and Cis
said to his son Saul: Take one of the servants with thee, and
arise, go, and seek the asses. And when they had passed through
mount Ephraim,</span></li>
<li><span>And through the land of Salisa, and had not found them,
they passed also through the land of Salim, and they were not
there: and through the land of Jemini, and found them
not.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to
the servant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my
father forget the asses, and be concerned for us.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this
city, a famous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass.
Now therefore let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way,
for which we are come.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul said to his servant: Behold we will go: but what
shall we carry to the man of God? the bread is spent in our bags:
and we have no present to make to the man of God, nor any thing at
all.</span></li>
<li><span>The servant answered Saul again, and said: Behold there
is found in my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us
give it to the man of God, that he may tell us our way.</span></li>
<li><span>Now in time past, in Israel when a man went to consult
God he spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now
called a prophet, in time past was called a seer.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good,
come, let us go. And they went into the city, where the man of God
was.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found
maids coming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer
here?</span></li>
<li><span>They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is
before you, make haste now: for he came to day into the city, for
there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high
place.</span></li>
<li><span>As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately
find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people
will not eat till he come: because he blesseth the victim, and
afterwards they eat that are invited. Now therefore go up, for to
day you shall find him.</span></li>
<li><span>And they went up into the city. And when they were
walking in the midst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out over
against them, to go up to the high place.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day
before Saul came, saying:</span></li>
<li><span>To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of
the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my
people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the
Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their
cry is come to me.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold
the man, of whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my
people.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate and
said: Tell me, I pray thee, where is the house of the
seer?</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer, go up
before me to the high place, that you may eat with me to day, and I
will let thee go in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy
heart.</span></li>
<li><span>And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be
not solicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all
the best things of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all
thy father's house?</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the
least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the
families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this
word to me?</span></li>
<li><span>Then Samuel taking Saul and his servant, brought them
into the parlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that
were invited. For there were about thirty men.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the portion, which I
gave thee, and commanded thee to set it apart by thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before
Saul. And Samuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and
eat: because it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the
people. And Saul ate with Samuel that day.</span></li>
<li><span>And they went down from the high place into the town, and
he spoke with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed
for Saul on the top of the house, and he slept.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now
to be light, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying:
Arise, that I may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out
both of them, to wit, he and Samuel.</span></li>
<li><span>And as they were going down in the end of the city,
Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass
on: but stand thou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of
the Lord.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">1 Samuel 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Samuel took a little vial of oil and poured it upon
his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed
thee to be prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his
people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about
them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed
thee to be prince.</span></li>
<li><span>When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find
two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to
the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which
thou wentest to seek: and thy father thinking no more of the asses
is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my
son?</span></li>
<li><span>And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther
on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee
three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and
another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of
wine.</span></li>
<li><span>And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves,
and thou shalt take them at their hand.</span></li>
<li><span>After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the
garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there
into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down
from the high place, with a psaltery and a timbrel, and a pipe, and
a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.</span></li>
<li><span>And the spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou
shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another
man.</span></li>
<li><span>When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do
whatsoever thy hand shall find, for the Lord is with
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will
come down to thee,) that thou mayest offer an oblation, and
sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, O till I
come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.</span></li>
<li><span>So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God
gave unto him another heart, and all these things came to pass that
day.</span></li>
<li><span>And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company
of prophets met him: and the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and
he prophesied in the midst of them.</span></li>
<li><span>And all that had known him yesterday and the day before,
seeing that he was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each
other: What is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? Is Saul
also among the prophets?</span></li>
<li><span>And one answered another, saying: And who is their
father? therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the
prophets?</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to
the high place.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither
went you? They answered: To seek the asses: and not finding them we
went to Samuel.</span></li>
<li><span>And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses
were found. But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had
spoken to him, he told him not.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in
Maspha:</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the
Lord the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and
delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of
all the kings who afflicted you.</span></li>
<li><span>But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath
saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have
said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the
Lord by your tribes, and by your families.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and
the lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.</span></li>
<li><span>And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds
thereof, and the lot fell Upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to
Saul the son of Cis. They sought him therefore and he was not
found.</span></li>
<li><span>And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would
come thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at
home.</span></li>
<li><span>And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the
midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from
the shoulders and upward.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him
whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all
the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the
king.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent
away all the people, every one to his own house.</span></li>
<li><span>Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there
went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had
touched.</span></li>
<li><span>But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be
able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no
presents, but he dissembled as though he heard not.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="11">1 Samuel 11</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And it came to pass about a month after this that Naas,
the Ammonite came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And
all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we
will serve thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And Naas the Ammonite answered them: On this condition
will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your
right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven
days, that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and
if there be no one to defend us, we will come out to
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they
spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people
lifted up their voices, and wept.</span></li>
<li><span>And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field,
and he said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told
him the words of the men of Jabes.</span></li>
<li><span>And the spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had
heard these words, and his anger was exceedingly
kindled.</span></li>
<li><span>And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent
them into all the coasts of Israel by messengers, saying: Whosoever
shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be
done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people,
and they went out as one man.</span></li>
<li><span>And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the
children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda
thirty thousand.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you
say to the men of Jabes Galaad: Tomorrow, when the sun shall be
hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told
the men of Jabes: and they were glad.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said: In the morning we will come out to you:
and you shall do what you please with us.</span></li>
<li><span>And it came to pass, when the morrow was come that Saul
put the people in three companies: and he came into the midst of
the camp in the morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the
day grew hot, and the rest were scattered, so that two of them were
not left together.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people said to Samuel: Who is he that said: Shall
Saul reign over us? Bring the men and we will kill
them.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day, because
the Lord this day hath wrought salvation in Israel:</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said to the people: Come and let us go to
Galgal, and let us renew the kingdom there.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made
Saul king before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there
victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of
Israel rejoiced exceedingly</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="12">1 Samuel 12</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to
your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over
you.</span></li>
<li><span>And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and
greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with
you from my youth unto this day, behold here I am.</span></li>
<li><span>Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed,
whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any
man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any
man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to
you.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed
us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and
his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing
in my hand. And they said: He is witness.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord, who made
Moses and Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of
Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore stand up, that I may plead in judgment
against you before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the
Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and to your fathers:</span></li>
<li><span>How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the
Lord: and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers
out of Egypt: and made them dwell in this place.</span></li>
<li><span>And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them
into the hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into
the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
Moab, and they fought against them.</span></li>
<li><span>But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have
sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim
and Astaroth: but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and
we will serve thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and
Samuel, and delivered you from the hand of your enemies round
about, and you dwelt securely.</span></li>
<li><span>But seeing that Naas king of the children of Ammon was
come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over
us: whereas the Lord your God was your king.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore your king is here, whom you have chosen and
desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.</span></li>
<li><span>If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to
his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both
you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord
your God.</span></li>
<li><span>But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but
will rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon
you, and upon your fathers.</span></li>
<li><span>Now then stand, and see this great thing which the Lord
will do in your sight.</span></li>
<li><span>Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the
Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know and
see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the
Lord, in desiring a king over you.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder
and rain that day.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
And all the people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the
Lord thy God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our
sins this evil, to ask for a king.</span></li>
<li><span>And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done
all this evil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but
serve the Lord with all your heart.</span></li>
<li><span>And turn not aside after vain things which shall never
profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great
name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his
people.</span></li>
<li><span>And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I
should cease to pray for you, and I will teach you the good and
right way.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in truth and with
your whole heart, for you have seen the great works which he hath
done among you.</span></li>
<li><span>But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king
shall perish together.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="13">1 Samuel 13</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and
he reigned two years over Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two
thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a
thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin, and the rest of the
people he sent back every man to their dwellings.</span></li>
<li><span>And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which
was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul
sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews
hear.</span></li>
<li><span>And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the
garrison of the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the
Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to
Galgal.</span></li>
<li><span>The Philistines also were assembled to fight against