World English Bible
1 Samuel 2:12
“Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 2
Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. "Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
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;
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.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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