[:en]Thoughts from 1 Samuel 02[:]

[:en]Hannah glorified the Lord through prayer and songs.  She sang because she could give her son to the service of the Lord.

The wicked sons of Eli refused to listen to the rebuke of their father causing his family to lose the priesthood (1 Kings 2:27).  A man of God came to inform Eli that both his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas will die on the same day (v. 34).  But Samuel was pure in the midst of a defiled environment.

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not turn from it” (Prov. 22:6)[:]