He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed. 002:011 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest. 002:012 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh. 002:013 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; 002:014 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. 002:015 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw. 002:016 If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. 002:017 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh. 002:018 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. 002:019 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. 002:020 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home. 002:021 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh. 002:022 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting. 002:023 He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people. 002:024 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey. 002:025 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them. 002:026 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men. 002:027 There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house? 002:028 and did 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? and did I give to the house of your father