1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:13Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:
Judges 2:10And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.
1 Samuel 3:7Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the Lord been revealed to him.
1 Samuel 25:17Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.
1 Kings 21:13And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king: wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.
Jeremiah 9:6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:12-27
Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. ( b. c. 1130.) 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord . 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the… Read the whole commentary →