A. High Lights of your week
B. Breaking News in the worldLinda's apartment intercom buzzed. She picked up the intercom phone. "Hello," she said. "The UPX man is coming up," said Julia. Julia worked at the front desk. Finally! Linda had been waiting two weeks to return a package. She took the package to the front door. She waited for the doorbell to ring. She thought she heard someone. She opened the door. No one was there. She shut the door. She stood just inside the door. A few minutes went by. She stared at the package. Where was this guy? Did he get lost? Did the elevator get stuck? Did he go to the wrong floor? Maybe she should call Julia back. KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! Linda almost jumped out of her skin. Was he trying to break the door down? She couldn't believe the door was still on its hinges. "UPX!" the man yelled at the top of his lungs.
D. Idioms
1. at stake
2. back down (from something)3. back out (of something)
4. ball is in (someone's) court
5. beat around the bush
6. blow a deal
7. bog down
8. bone of contention
9. break down
10. bring (someone) to terms
E. Bible Lesson1 Samuel 1:
1 Samuel 1English Standard Version (ESV)
The Birth of Samuel
1 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
3 Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. 4 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.[a] 6 And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb. 7 So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat. 8 And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
9 After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of theLord. 10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. 11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
12 As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.13 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. 14 And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.” 15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord. 16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.” 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.” 18 And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.
19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. 20 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”[b]
Samuel Given to the Lord
21 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there forever.”23 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,[c] an ephah[d] of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. And the child was young.25 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord. 27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.28 Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.”
And he worshiped the Lord there.
Chapter 1
1:1-20 Make up and act a dramatic story about Elkanah and his family and their visit to Shiloh. It might have four scenes: 1:1-8; 1:9-11; 1:12-18; 1:19-20.
1:1 How do you know that Elkanah was a real person? What do you learn about Elkanah’s *tribe and where he lived?
1:2 What do you learn about Elkanah’s family? What difficulties do you think that Elkanah had in his family?
1:3 Whom do you learn about here? What was the activity, or work, of each of these people?
1:4, 5 What do you learn about Elkanah? What was most important for him? What do you learn about God?
1:6-8 What do you learn about Elkanah’s two wives? What did Elkanah do? What do you think about all that?
1:9-11 What was Eli doing? Why might the writer have mentioned that Eli was sitting down? Eli was the High Priest. What work might he have done better? What do you learn about Hannah? What do you learn from her prayer? What do you learn about her attitude to God?
1:12-18 What do you think about Eli and Hannah in this verse? Eli did not understand Hannah. Whom do you know that people might not understand?
1:19, 20 Put this into your own words. What do you learn about what was important to Elkanah and his family?
1:21-2:11 Make up and act out a dramatic story about Hannah and Samuel. You might make up a modern example similar to Hannah’s prayer 2:1-11. You could read it in sections as a public prayer. People need to apply what is true to their own lives. There could be activities that would help people to do that.
1:21 What do you learn about Elkanah and his family? In what ways is Elkanah’s behavior different from yours? What do you think about that? What changes will you make to your own behavior?
1:22, 23 Put this into your own words. What do you think about Hannah and Elkanah’s behavior? What changes might you want to make in your own family or neighborhood?
1:24, 25a Put this story into your own words. What things about this story are different from the things that you do in your neighborhood? What do you think about that?
1:25b-28 Put this story into your own words. What do you think about Hannah? What do you think about what she says and does? What will you do in a different way because of this story?
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