Samuel - NAS

Samuel Came along When the Time of the Judges was Nearly over and the Kings Were Beginning. He was a Miracle Child, a Gift from God to a Mother Who Badly Wanted a Child, but Had Not Been Able Thus Far. After His Mother Weaned Him and Brought Him to Eli, the High Priest Who Did a Better Job Raising Him than He Had Done with His Own Sons. Samuel's Mother Said, I Have Lent Him to the Lord as Long as He Lives.

1. Hannah Loved the Lord and She Loved Her Husband. But This was Not Enough for Her. She Wanted a Child.

1 Samuel 1:1-2 Now there was a certain man from Ramathaim-zophim from the hill country of ____________, and his name was ____________ the son of ____________, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an ____________ite. [2] He had two wives: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

1 Samuel 1:3-5 Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to ________________ to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and ______________, were priests to the LORD there. [4] When the day came that Elkanah ________________d, he would give portions to ______________ his wife and to all her sons and her ________________; [5] but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had closed her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6-7 Her rival, however, would provoke her ______________ to ______________ her, because the LORD had closed her womb. [7] It ______________ year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

1 Samuel 1:8 Then ____________ her ____________ said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

1) Why was Hannah so sad? _______________________________

2) Elkanah said to Hannah, why do you _________? Am I not better to you than _______ sons?

2. God Answers Hannah's Prayer.

1 Samuel 1:9-12 Then Hannah rose after eating and ______________ in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD. [10] She, ____________ __________________, prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly. [11] She made a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and ______________ me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head." [12] Now it came about, as she ________________ ____________ before the LORD, that Eli was ______________ her mouth.

1 Samuel 1:13-15 As for Hannah, she was ______________ in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. [14] Then Eli said to her, "How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you." [15] But Hannah ____________, "No, my lord, I am a woman ________________ in spirit; I have drunk ____________ wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:17-18 Then Eli answered and said, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your ______________ that you have asked of Him." [18] She said, "Let your ___________________ find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no __________ sad.

1 Samuel 1:19-20 Then they arose early in the morning and ________________ before the LORD, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah had ________________ with Hannah his wife, and the LORD __________________ her. [20] It came about in due time, after Hannah had ________________, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him of the LORD."

1) What did Eli the priest think as he watched Hannah's lips move without making any sound? _____________________________

2) What was the vow Hannah made to the Lord if He would give her a son? ____________________________

3) Did Hannah have a son? _____________

4) What did she name him? _________________

3. Hannah Took Samuel to Stay with Eli the High Priest. As She Had Said She Would, She Gave Him to Serve the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:21-22 Then the man Elkanah went up with all his ________________ to offer to the LORD the yearly ________________ and pay his vow. [22] But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her ____________, "I will not go up until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and stay there ____________."

1 Samuel 1:24-28 Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in __________, although the child was young. [25] Then they ___________________ the bull, and brought the boy to Eli. [26] She said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here __________ you, ____________ to the LORD. [27] "For this boy I __________, and the LORD has given me my ______________ which I asked of Him. [28] "So I have also dedicated him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD." And he ________________ the LORD there.

1 Samuel 2:11 Then ____________ went to his home at Ramah. But the boy __________________ to the LORD before Eli the priest.

1) Hannah said she would not go with her husband to the yearly sacrifice until what happened? __________________________ (verse 22)

2) Hannah said that she had dedicated Samuel to the Lord for as long as he __________. (Verse 28).

4. Samuel Lived with Eli and Learned from Him.

1 Samuel 3:1-4 Now the boy Samuel was ___________________ to the LORD before Eli. And word from the LORD was rare in those days, ____________ were infrequent. [2] It ______________ at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now his ______________ had begun to grow dim and he could not see well), [3] and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was, [4] that the LORD __________ Samuel; and he said, "Here I am."

1 Samuel 3:5-6 Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, lie down again." So he went and lay down. [6] The _______ called yet again, "Samuel!" So Samuel _________ and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he ______________, "I did not call, my _____, lie down again."

1 Samuel 3:7-9 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor had the word of the LORD yet been ______________ to him. [8] So the LORD called Samuel again for the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli ________________ that the LORD was ____________ the boy. [9] And Eli said to Samuel, "Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, LORD, for Your ____________ is ________________.' " So Samuel went and lay down in his _________.

1 Samuel 3:10-14 Then the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for Your servant is ________________." [11] The LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of ______________ who hears it will tingle. [12] "In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken __________________ his house, from ________________ to end. [13] "For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons ____________ a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them. [14] "________________ I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by ________________ or ______________ forever."

1) When Eli had lain down for the night and Samuel had too, he heard a voice. Whose voice was it? ________

2) When Eli realized that God was talking to Samuel, he told Samuel to answer the Lord by saying: Speak Lord, for your ____________ hears You.

3) God said that He was putting a curse on Eli and his sons because they had sinned and Eli had not _____________ them.

5. Samuel Had to Tell Eli the Message the Lord Had Given Him.

1 Samuel 3:15 So Samuel lay down until ____________. Then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. But Samuel was afraid to tell the __________ to Eli.

1 Samuel 3:16-18 Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." And he said, "Here I am." [17] He said, "What is the word that He spoke to you? __________ do not hide it from me. May God do so to you, and more also, if you hide ______________ from me of all the words that He spoke to you." [18] So Samuel told him __________________ and hid ____________ from him. And he said, "It is the LORD; let Him do what _________ good to Him."

1 Samuel 3:19-20 Thus Samuel grew and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fail. [20] All Israel from Dan even to ________________ knew that Samuel was ________________ as a prophet of the LORD.

1) Samuel afraid to tell Eli what the Lord had told him? __________

2) Did Eli accept the message as from the Lord? __________

3) Did all of Israel come to understand that Samuel was God's prophet with messages from God? _______________.

Samuel was a judge and a prophet. Judges had ruled Israel for about four hundred years since the time of Moses. When the people asked for a king, Samuel felt rejected. God said to him, the people have not rejected you, but Me. As the time of the judges was closing, kings replaced judges as rulers of Israel. Samuel anointed the first two kings, Saul and David.

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