1 Samuel Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ 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: ² 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. ³ 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. ⁴ Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to Phenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions: ⁵ But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. And the Lord had shut up her womb. ⁶ Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb: ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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? ⁹ 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; ¹⁰ As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears, ¹¹ And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. ¹² And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord, that Heli observed her mouth. ¹³ 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, ¹⁴ And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him. ¹⁸ 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. ¹⁹ 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. ²⁰ 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. ²¹ And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow. ²² 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. ²³ 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 staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him. ²⁴ 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: ²⁵ And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli. ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him. ²⁸ 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:

¹ And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

¹⁹ Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.

²³ And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

²⁵ Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.

²⁹ And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

¹ And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:

¹ Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

¹ Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, ² She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

¹¹ And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

¹⁸ For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

¹ And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

⁷ And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age? ⁸ And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.

²⁶ The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,

⁴² And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk, ⁴³ Behold, I stand by the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come out to draw water, who shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher: ⁴⁴ And shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman, whom the Lord hath prepared for my master's son. ⁴⁵ And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink.

⁴⁸ And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

⁵² Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.

²¹ And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

²⁰ And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

²³ And at night he brought in Lia, his daughter, to him, ²⁴ Giving his daughter a handmaid, named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had gone in to her according to custom, when morning was come he saw it was Lia. ²⁵ And he said to his father in law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me? ²⁶ Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first. ²⁷ Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years. ²⁸ He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel: ²⁹ To whom her father gave Bala, for her servant. ³⁰ And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years. ³¹ And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

³¹ And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren. ³² And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.

³² And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me. ³³ And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ The fourth time she conceived and bore a son, and said: Now will I praise the Lord: and for this she called him Juda. And she left bearing.

² And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?

⁶ And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan. ⁷ And again Bala conceived, and bore another, ⁸ For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali. ⁹ Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband. ¹⁰ And when she had conceived, and brought forth a son, ¹¹ She said: Happily. And therefore called his name Gad. ¹² Zelpha also bore another. ¹³ And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser. ¹⁴ And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes. ¹⁵ She answered: Dost thou think it a small matter, that thou hast taken my husband from me, unless thou take also my son's mandrakes? Rachel said: He shall sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandrakes. ¹⁶ And when Jacob returned at even from the field, Lia went out to meet him, and said: Thou shalt come in unto me, because I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes. And he slept with her that night. ¹⁷ And God heard her prayers; and she conceived: and bore a fifth son: ¹⁸ And said: God hath given me a reward, because I gave my handmaid to my husband. And she called his name Issachar. ¹⁹ And Lia conceived again, and bore the sixth son, ²⁰ And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon. ²¹ After whom she bore a daughter, named Dina. ²² The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

⁵ I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and menservants, and womenservants: and now I send a message to my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight.

⁸ And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.

¹⁵ Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.

⁵¹ And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house. ⁵² And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

¹⁵ I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

³⁴ Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.

²² He ordered also to be brought out for every one of them two robes: but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, with five robes of the best:

¹⁰ And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

¹⁰ And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

²² And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

³¹ And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.

⁶ His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

¹⁴ Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

¹⁷ Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

²³ Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.

⁴ The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.

¹⁵ And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall any of it remain until the morning.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

²³ The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

⁵ All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.

⁸ All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.

¹¹ And the priest shall offer one for sin, and the other for a holocaust, and shall pray for him, for that he hath sinned by the dead: and he shall sanctify his head that day:

⁹ Thou shalt give for every ox three tenths of flour tempered with half a hin of oil, ¹⁰ And wine for libations of the same measure, for an offering of most sweet savour to the Lord.

² But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

^{3 (30:4)} If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: ^{4 (30:5)} Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed. ^{5 (30:6)} But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. ^{6 (30:7)} If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath, ^{7 (30:8)} The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.

^{7 (30:8)} The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised. ^{8 (30:9)} But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her.

^{8 (30:9)} But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her. ^{9 (30:10)} The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow. ^{10 (30:11)} If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath, ^{11 (30:12)} If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.

⁵ But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

⁵ But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: ⁶ And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.

⁶ And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep. ⁷ And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

¹¹ In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

¹¹ In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord. ¹² There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you. ¹³ Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see: ¹⁴ But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.

¹⁷ Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands: ¹⁸ But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

¹³ Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

¹¹ And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

¹⁶ Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

¹⁵ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

¹⁵ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn, ¹⁶ And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and prefer him before the son of the hated. ¹⁷ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him are due the first birthrights.

⁷ You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.

¹⁷ And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot only: ¹⁸ But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the wood, and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when thou hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron chariots, and are very strong.

¹ And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was subdued before them.

¹² They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them. ¹³ And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad, Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, ¹⁴ And ten princes with him, one of every tribe. ¹⁵ Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them: ¹⁶ Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him? ¹⁷ Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished. ¹⁸ And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel. ¹⁹ But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass over to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among us: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but one man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.

¹⁵ But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

³³ Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in Gabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

³⁰ And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

³⁰ He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

⁵ And the Galaadites secured the fords of the Jordan, by which Ephraim was to return. And when any one of the number of Ephraim came thither in the flight, and said: I beseech you let me pass: the Galaadites said to him: Art thou not an Ephraimite? If he said: I am not:

² Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

⁵ Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

¹ There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michas.

⁶ He answered them: Go in peace: the Lord looketh on your way, and the journey that you go.

³¹ And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.

¹ There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:

² And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before him till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and weep, saying:

² He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

²⁰ But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.

¹³ And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids.

¹⁵ And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.

¹ 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:

³ 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.

⁹ 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;

¹¹ And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

¹¹ And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. ¹² And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord, that Heli observed her mouth. ¹³ 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,

¹⁷ Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.

¹⁹ 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.

²¹ And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow. ²² 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.

²⁸ 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:

¹¹ 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. ¹² Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

¹² Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord, ¹³ 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, ¹⁴ And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, 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. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to day, according to the custom, and then take to thee 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. ¹⁷ Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord. ¹⁸ But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod. ¹⁹ 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.

³⁴ 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.

¹ 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.

³ Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was.

¹³ 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.

¹⁵ And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to Heli.

³ 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. ⁴ 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.

⁴ 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.

¹¹ And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were slain.

¹⁷ And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is 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. ¹⁸ 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.

⁵ 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.

²⁶ 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.

²⁷ 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.

¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda, before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.

⁵⁵ Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.

³ And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

²⁵ Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.

³⁵ And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face.

⁷ Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

² He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?

²⁵ And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou hast spoken,

¹¹ And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.

¹⁶ And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground. ¹⁷ And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.

³⁶ And when he made an end of speaking, the king's sons also appeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very much.

¹⁹ And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.

¹² Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may render me good for the cursing of this day.

⁸ And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

²⁶ Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.

² And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come down to Bethel,

⁴ And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me to Jericho. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And when they were come to Jericho,

⁶ And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on together.

³⁰ But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.

¹⁹ And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.

¹² And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women.

³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

¹⁰ And Jabes called upon the God of Israel, saying: If blessing thou wilt bless me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy hand be with me, and thou save me from being oppressed by evil. And God granted him the things he prayed for.

²⁵ The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and Achimoth. ²⁶ And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: Sophai his son, Nahath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana his son.

³⁴ The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,

⁴ Then the king said to me: For what dost thou make request? And I prayed to the God of heaven,

² O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. ³ As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

¹⁴ He that taketh away mercy from his friend, for saketh the fear of the Lord.

¹¹ Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

² How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

¹⁸ He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

¹ My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹ My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

¹⁴ If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

²³ If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

²¹ For he hath fed the barren that beareth not, and to the widow he hath done no good.

¹⁶ And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

^{3 (5:4)} For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

^{7 (5:8)} But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

^{9 (6:10)} The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my prayer.

^{3 (20:4)} May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burntoffering be made fat. ^{4 (20:5)} May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels. ^{5 (20:6)} We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.

^{9 (22:10)} For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.

⁶ And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

¹ Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

⁷ The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

¹⁸ See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

⁴ One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

⁹ The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.

^{4 (42:5)} These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

⁴ And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. ^(43:5) To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp:

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

^{17 (55:18)} Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.

^{3 (62:4)} How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

^{8 (62:9)} Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

¹⁹ Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication. ²⁰ Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

⁶⁰ And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

¹⁵ He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

² And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

⁴ The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

¹ I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. ² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. ³ The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: ⁴ And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

⁵ In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

¹⁴⁷ I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.

¹ A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness. ² How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

²³ For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever.

^{2 (142:3)} In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: ^{3 (142:4)} When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

⁶ I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

²⁴ Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹ A mild answer breaketh wrath: but a harsh word stirreth up fury.

¹⁵ By patience a prince shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.

^{4 (5:3)} If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

⁷ Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

⁷ His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

¹⁵ What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁶ That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.

¹ Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

⁶ For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in spirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God.

¹² Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel: ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered: ¹⁴ I will do to this house, in which my name is called upon, and in which you trust, and to the place which I have given you and your fathers, as I did to Silo.

¹⁷ But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

¹⁰ Weep not for him that is dead, nor bemoan him with your tears: lament him that goeth away, for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

¹⁹ Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

¹⁵ He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

¹⁵ The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devonr, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.

¹ Judge not, that you may not be judged. ² For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. ³ And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ³⁵ A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

⁸ He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

¹⁹ And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

⁵⁷ And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.

³⁵ And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

³⁴ And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be thou whole of thy disease.

⁷ And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were well advanced in years.

²² And after the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord:

³⁶ And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

⁴¹ And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch.

⁴¹ And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch. ⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in peace.

⁴⁸ But he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go thy way in peace.

⁸ Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. ⁹ And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. ¹⁰ For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:

²⁷ And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck.

¹ And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

¹⁵ And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. ¹⁶ But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

⁴⁴ And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

⁴² And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.

²⁴ Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.

¹³ They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have laid him.

¹⁵ Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

¹³ But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine.

²⁶ Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For, we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings,

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

³¹ Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

¹⁸ By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

⁶ Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

² Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving.

¹⁴ And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

¹⁵ And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

¹⁶ Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

¹⁵ And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.