1Samuel:2:12-26
web@1Samuel:2:12 @Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
web@1Samuel:2:13 @The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
web@1Samuel:2:14 @and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
web@1Samuel:2:15 @Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."
web@1Samuel:2:16 @If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires"; then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."
web@1Samuel:2:17 @The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.
web@1Samuel:2:18 @But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
web@1Samuel:2:19 @Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
web@1Samuel:2:20 @Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.
web@1Samuel:2:21 @Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
web@1Samuel:2:22 @Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
web@1Samuel:2:23 @He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
web@1Samuel:2:24 @No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.
web@1Samuel:2:25 @If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
web@1Samuel:2:26 @The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
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