They replied, “You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.”

While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord.

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention.

So Saul crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.

The sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not recognize the Lord’s authority.

David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?”

David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. David said to Saul, “I can’t walk in these things, for I’m not used to them.” So David removed them.

But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?

He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.

The people who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.