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1 Esta fue la oración de Ana: «¡Cuánto me ha bendecido! Ahora tengo respuesta para mis enemigos, porque el Señor ha resuelto mi problema. ¡Cuánto se goza mi corazón!
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.
2 »No hay otro Dios, ni nadie tan santo como el Señor, ni otra roca como nuestro Dios.
2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
3 »Dejen de actuar con tanto orgullo y arrogancia; el Señor sabe lo que ustedes han hecho, y él juzgará sus acciones.
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.
4 »Los que eran poderosos han perdido sus fuerzas; los que eran débiles ahora son fuertes.
4 “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
5 Los que estaban hartos ahora pasan hambre, los que tenían hambre ahora se sacian. La mujer estéril, ahora tiene siete hijos; la que tenía muchos hijos ya no los tiene.
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.
6 »El Señor mata, el Señor da vida.
6 “Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
7 Él empobrece a unos y enriquece a otros; él abate a algunos y enaltece a otros.
7 Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
8 Él levanta al pobre desde el polvo, desde el montón de cenizas, y lo sienta entre los príncipes ubicándolo en un lugar de honor. »Porque el Señor tiene dominio sobre la tierra.
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.
9 Él protegerá a los piadosos, pero los impíos serán silenciados en las tinieblas. Ninguno podrá triunfar por su propia fortaleza.
9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.
10 »Los que pelean contra el Señor serán quebrantados. Él truena contra ellos desde los cielos; él juzga a través de toda la tierra. Él da poderosa fortaleza a su rey, y da gran gloria a su ungido».
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.”
11 Elcaná y su familia regresaron a Ramá sin Samuel; el niño quedó al servicio del Señor, como ayudante de Elí el sacerdote.
11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
12 Los hijos de Elí eran hombres impíos que desconocían al Señor y las obligaciones del sacerdocio.
12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
13 Por ejemplo, cuando alguien estaba ofreciendo un sacrificio, ellos enviaban a un siervo, y mientras la carne del animal estaba cociéndose,
13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
14 el siervo metía en el caldero o en la olla un tenedor grande de tres dientes, y todo lo que sacaba pertenecía a los hijos de Elí. De esta manera trataban a todos los israelitas que iban a Siló a adorar.
14 and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
15 A veces el siervo llegaba aun antes del rito de la quema de la grosura sobre el altar, y tenían que entregarle la carne antes que fuera cocida, para poder usarla para asados.
15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
16 Si el hombre que ofrecía el sacrificio decía: «Toma cuanto quieras, pero deja primero que se queme la grasa», como la ley lo exige, el siervo respondía: «No, dámela ahora, o la sacaré a la fuerza».
16 If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”
17 Así que el pecado de estos jóvenes era muy grande delante de los ojos del Señor, porque trataban con menosprecio las ofrendas que el pueblo hacía al Señor.
17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
18 Samuel, aunque todavía era un niño, prestaba servicio ante el Señor y usaba una túnica de lino similar a la de los sacerdotes.
18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
19 Cada año su madre le hacía una túnica de lino y se la llevaba cuando iba con su marido a ofrecer el sacrificio.
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.
20 Antes de que regresaran, Elí bendecía a Elcaná y a Ana, y pedía a Dios que les diera otro hijo que tomara el lugar de este que habían consagrado al Señor.
20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.
21 Y Dios le dio a Ana tres hijos y dos hijas. Mientras tanto, Samuel crecía en el servicio del Señor.
21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
22 Elí ya estaba muy anciano, pero se daba cuenta de lo que ocurría a su alrededor. Sabía, por ejemplo, que sus hijos estaban seduciendo a las jóvenes que ayudaban a la entrada del santuario.
22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
23 «He estado oyendo quejas terribles contra ustedes —dijo Elí a sus hijos—. Es algo horroroso hacer que el pueblo de Dios peque. No, hijos míos,
23 He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
24 Not in this translation
24 No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
25 el pecado ordinario recibe un fuerte castigo, pero ¿cuánto más los pecados que ustedes cometen contra el Señor?». Sin embargo, ellos no quisieron escuchar a su padre porque el Señor había resuelto que murieran.
25 If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
26 El pequeño Samuel, en cambio, iba creciendo en estatura y en gracia ante todos y también ante el Señor.
26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.
27 Un día un profeta vino ante Elí y le dio este mensaje del Señor: «¿No mostré yo mi poder a tus antepasados levitas cuando el pueblo de Israel era esclavo en Egipto?
27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?
28 ¿No los escogí de entre todos sus hermanos para que fueran mis sacerdotes y para que sacrificaran sobre mi altar, quemaran el incienso y usaran las vestiduras sacerdotales mientras me servían? ¿No fui yo quien destinó las ofrendas de los sacrificios para ustedes los sacerdotes?
28 Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
29 Entonces, ¿por qué tanta codicia en cuanto a las ofrendas que me son ofrecidas? ¿Por qué has honrado más a tus hijos que a mí? Porque tú has dejado que ellos engorden tomando lo mejor de las ofrendas de mi pueblo.
29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
30 »Por lo tanto, yo, el Señor Dios de Israel, declaro que aunque prometí que tu casa y la casa de tus antepasados llevarían el sacerdocio por siempre, no permitiré que se siga haciendo lo que tú haces. Honraré solamente a los que me honran, y despreciaré a los que me desprecian.
30 “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
31 Pondré fin a tu familia para que nunca más sirvan como sacerdotes. Cada miembro de tu familia morirá antes de tiempo. Ninguno llegará a viejo.
31 Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
32 Envidiarás la prosperidad que enviaré a mi pueblo. Pero tú y tu familia pasarán angustia y necesidad. Ninguno de ellos llegará a viejo.
32 You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.
33 Los que queden vivos vivirán con tristeza y dolor, y sus hijos morirán a espada.
33 The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.
34 Y para probar que lo que he dicho ocurrirá, haré que tus dos hijos, Ofni y Finés, mueran el mismo día.
34 This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
35 Yo haré surgir un sacerdote fiel que me servirá y hará lo que yo le diga. Bendeciré a sus descendientes, y de su familia saldrán los sacerdotes que servirán ante mi rey ungido para siempre.
35 I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
36 Y los descendientes tuyos que sobrevivan se inclinarán delante de él mendigando dinero y alimentos. “Por favor”, dirán, “dame un turno de trabajo entre los sacerdotes para que tenga de qué comer”».
36 It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
People & places in this chapter
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Eli
The priest at Shiloh who judged Israel forty years, blessed Hannah, took in the boy Samuel, failed to restrain his wicked sons, and died at ninety-eight when he heard the ark of…
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 1:9; 1 Samuel 2:22
Hophni
A priest at Shiloh and son of Eli, who treated the LORD's offering with contempt and died the same day as his brother Phinehas when the ark of God was captured.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 2:34; 1 Samuel 4:4
Phinehas
A priest at Shiloh and son of Eli, who died on the day the ark of God was captured; his wife died in childbirth after naming their son Ichabod.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 2:34; 1 Samuel 4:4
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Luke 1:46–56; Psalm 13:5; Isaiah 12:2–3; Philippians 4:6; Psalm 92:10
- 2 2 Samuel 22:32; Isaiah 44:6; Psalm 86:8; Exodus 15:11; Psalm 89:8
- 3 1 Kings 8:39; Proverbs 8:13; Proverbs 24:12; Jude 15–16; Hebrews 4:12
- 4 Psalm 76:3; Psalm 37:15; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 46:9; Hebrews 11:34
- 5 Psalm 113:9; Jeremiah 15:9; Luke 1:53; Psalm 34:10; Isaiah 54:1
- 6 Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 26:19; Jonah 2:2–6; 2 Kings 5:7; Job 5:18
- 7 Psalm 75:7; Job 5:11; Deuteronomy 8:17–18; Job 1:21; James 4:10
- 8 Psalm 113:7–8; James 2:5; Daniel 2:48; Daniel 6:3; 1 Samuel 15:17
- 9 Psalm 91:11–12; Psalm 121:3; Psalm 33:16–17; 1 Peter 1:5; Job 5:24
- 10 Psalm 2:9; Psalm 89:24; Psalm 18:13–14; Psalm 96:13; Exodus 15:6
- 11 1 Samuel 2:18; 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 3:15
- 12 Romans 1:28–30; Jeremiah 2:8; Romans 1:21; Judges 2:10; 2 Corinthians 6:15
- 13 Leviticus 7:29–34
- 14 Exodus 29:27–28; 1 Samuel 2:29; Isaiah 56:11; 2 Peter 2:13–15; Malachi 1:10
- 15 Leviticus 3:16; Romans 16:18; Leviticus 3:3–5; Philippians 3:19; Jude 12
- 16 Leviticus 7:23–25; Leviticus 3:16; 1 Peter 5:2–3; Judges 18:25; Nehemiah 5:15
- 17 Malachi 2:7–9; Genesis 13:13; Malachi 2:13; Genesis 6:11; 2 Kings 21:6
- 18 Exodus 28:4; 1 Samuel 3:1; 1 Samuel 2:11; 2 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 22:18
- 19 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 1:21; Exodus 23:14
- 20 1 Samuel 1:27–28; Luke 2:34; Ruth 4:11; Genesis 27:27–29; Ruth 2:12
- 21 Luke 2:40; Genesis 21:1; 1 Samuel 3:19; 1 Samuel 2:26; Judges 13:24
- 22 Exodus 38:8; Jeremiah 7:9–10; 1 Samuel 2:13–17; Hosea 4:9–11; Ezekiel 22:26
- 23 Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 3:3; Acts 9:4; Jeremiah 8:12; Acts 14:15
- 25 Joshua 11:20; Numbers 15:30; Hebrews 10:26; 1 Samuel 3:14; 1 Timothy 2:5
- 26 Luke 2:52; Luke 2:40; Acts 2:47; Luke 1:80; 1 Samuel 2:21
- 27 Judges 13:6; 1 Kings 13:1; Deuteronomy 33:1; Exodus 4:14–16; Exodus 4:27
- 28 Exodus 28:1; Leviticus 8:7–8; Numbers 18:19; Leviticus 2:3; Leviticus 7:34–35
- 29 Matthew 10:37; Deuteronomy 32:15; 1 Samuel 2:13–17; Malachi 1:12–13; Luke 14:26
- 30 John 12:26; Jeremiah 18:9–10; Proverbs 3:9–10; Malachi 1:6; Psalm 91:14
- 31 1 Samuel 22:17–20; 1 Kings 2:26–27; 1 Samuel 4:11–20; 1 Samuel 14:3; 1 Samuel 4:2
- 32 Zechariah 8:4; 1 Samuel 4:11; Psalm 78:59–64; 1 Kings 2:26–27; 1 Samuel 4:22
- 33 1 Kings 2:26–27; 1 Samuel 22:21–23; 1 Kings 1:19; 1 Kings 1:7; Matthew 2:16–18
- 34 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Kings 13:3; 1 Samuel 4:17; 1 Samuel 3:12; 1 Kings 14:12
- 35 2 Samuel 7:27; 2 Samuel 7:11; 1 Kings 11:38; 1 Samuel 25:28; Psalm 18:50
- 36 1 Kings 2:27; Ezekiel 44:10–12; Malachi 1:13; 1 Samuel 2:29–30
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
"For them that glorify me," saith He, "I will glorify; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed." Let us, I say, do all things unto His glory; that we may attain unto that blessed portion, unto which God grant we may all attain, by the grace and love towards man of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
If thou findest fault with Him who saith, The Lord killeth, and maketh alive, why dost thou honour Peter, who raised up Tabitha, but struck Sapphira dead?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For even as ten thousand times signifies often, so here too. For by saying, "The barren hath borne seven," the Scripture means many.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)