1 Samuel 2:12

and the sons of Eli [are] sons of worthlessness, they have not known YHWH.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

In Context

11And Elkanah goes to Ramath, to his house, and the youth has been serving YHWH [in] the presence of Eli the priest;

13And the custom of the priests with the people [is that when] any man is sacrificing a sacrifice, then the servant of the priest has come in when the flesh is boiling, and [with] the hook of three teeth in his hand,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:13Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of your midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which you have not known),

Judges 2:10and all that generation have also been gathered to their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known YHWH, and even the work which He has done to Israel.

1 Samuel 3:7And Samuel has not yet known YHWH, and the word of YHWH is not yet revealed to him.

1 Samuel 25:17And now, know and consider what you do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he [is] too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.”

1 Kings 21:13and two men—sons of worthlessness—come in, and sit opposite him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth blessed [[ or cursed]] God and [the] king”; and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dies;

Jeremiah 9:6Your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, || Through deceit they refused to know Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.

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 →

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