1Samuel:2:12-26
nsb@1Samuel:2:12 @ The sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know Jehovah.
nsb@1Samuel:2:13 @ The priests had a custom with the people. If any man offered sacrifice, the priests servant came while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand.
nsb@1Samuel:2:14 @ He stuck it into the pan, kettle, caldron or pot. All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.
nsb@1Samuel:2:15 @ Before they burned the fat the priests servant came and said to the man who sacrificed: »Give flesh to roast for the priest. For he will not have boiled flesh from you, but raw!«
nsb@1Samuel:2:16 @ If any man said to him: »Let them burn the fat first, you may take as much as you desire.« Then he would answer him, »No! But you will give it now! If not, I will take it by force.«
nsb@1Samuel:2:17 @ The sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.
nsb@1Samuel:2:18 @ Samuel served before Jehovah as a child girded with a linen ephod.
nsb@1Samuel:2:19 @ His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
nsb@1Samuel:2:20 @ Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said: »May Jehovah give you children from this woman for the loan made to Jehovah.« They returned to their home.
nsb@1Samuel:2:21 @ Jehovah visited Hannah so that she conceived. She bore three sons and two daughters. At the same time the child Samuel grew before Jehovah.
nsb@1Samuel:2:22 @ Eli was very old. He heard everything his sons did to Israel. He heard how they slept with the women who served at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
nsb@1Samuel:2:23 @ So he said to them: »Why do you do such things? I hear of your evil dealings by all the people.
nsb@1Samuel:2:24 @ »No, my sons. It is not a good report that I hear. You make Jehovahs people transgress.
nsb@1Samuel:2:25 @ »If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against Jehovah, who will intercede for him?« But his sons did not listen to the voice of their father. Jehovah desired to put them to death.
nsb@1Samuel:2:26 @ The child Samuel grew both in stature and in goodness with Jehovah and also with men.
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