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1 Samuel 2:10-12
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 2:10-12
Lexham English Bible
10 Yahweh will shatter[a] his adversaries;[b]
he will thunder against them in the heavens.
Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.
He will give strength to his king
and will exalt the might of his anointed one.
11 Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. Now the boy was serving Yahweh in the presence of[c] Eli the priest.
The Family of Eli the Priest
12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless scoundrels;[d] they did not know[e] Yahweh.
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- 1 Samuel 2:10 Singular verb supported by Syriac, Targums, Septuagint, and Old Latin versions.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) has the singular “adversary”; the reading tradition (Qere) reads the plural
- 1 Samuel 2:11 Literally “in the face of”
- 1 Samuel 2:12 Literally “sons of Belial”
- 1 Samuel 2:12 Or “acknowledge”
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