{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1002_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1002_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1002_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/sa1002.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly biblical text presenting 1 Samuel chapter 2 in two parallel versions: the King James Version with interleaved Strong's Concordance reference numbers (identifying each word's Hebrew root), and the Greek Septuagint (LXX). The chapter opens with Hannah's Prayer, a poetic hymn celebrating God's power to reverse human fortunes \u2014 the hungry fed, the barren made fruitful, the proud humbled, the lowly exalted \u2014 ending with a reference to God's \"anointed\" king. The narrative then contrasts the corrupt sons of Eli the priest (Hophni and Phinehas), who stole sacrificial meat and slept with women at the tabernacle, with the young Samuel, who grew faithfully in service to God. The chapter concludes with a divine oracle condemning Eli's priestly dynasty for prioritizing his sons over God, foretelling the line's destruction and its replacement by a \"faithful priest.\"\n\nThe most distinctive feature is the comparative textual apparatus: the Septuagint's version of Hannah's Prayer (v. 10) is substantially longer than the Hebrew, adding material about not boasting in wisdom, strength, or wealth \u2014 language closely paralleling Jeremiah 9:23\u201324 \u2014 which is absent from the KJV. This parallel presentation is aimed at readers doing serious source-text study or textual criticism, comparing the Hebrew and Greek manuscript traditions rather than simply reading the narrative.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 2","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":3400}