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1 Samuel 2:12

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Gluttony;   Hophni;   Judge;   Minister, Christian;   Priest;   Rulers;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Base Fellows;   Fellows, Base;   Samuel;   Young Men;   Young People;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;   Covetousness;   Gluttony;   Offence;   Titles and Names of the Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Belial;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eli;   Phinehas;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Knowledge of God;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Belial;   Phinehas;   Samuel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Belial;   Hophni and Phinehas;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kettle;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Ignorance;   Knowledge;   Mary;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hannah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Hophni;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Belial;   Eli;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hoph'ni;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Belial;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - City;   Elkanah;   Hophni and Phinehas;   Samuel, Books of;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Belial;   Phinehas;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Arakian, maka anak laki-laki Eli itu orang jahat adanya, tiada ia mengetahui akan Tuhan.

Contextual Overview

11 And Elkana went to Ramath to his house, and the lad dyd minister vnto the Lorde before Eli the priest. 12 But the sonnes of Eli were children of Belial, and knewe not the Lord. 13 And the priestes custome toward the people was, that whensoeuer any man offered any offring, ye priestes lad came whyle the fleshe was a seethyng, and a fleshhoke with three teeth in his hande: 14 And thrust it into the panne, kettle, caldren, or pot: and all that the fleshehoke brought vp, that the priest toke for hym self: And so they dyd vnto all the Israelites that came thyther to Silo. 15 Yea, and thereto before they burnt the fat, the priestes lad came and sayde to the man that offered, Geue fleshe, that I may roste it for the priest: for he wyll not haue sodde fleshe of thee, but rawe. 16 And yf any man sayde vnto hym, Let them burne the fat according to the custome, and then take as much as thyne hearte desireth: Then he would aunswere hym, Yea, thou shalt geue it me nowe: and if thou wilt not, I wyll take it with violence. 17 And the sinne of the young men was very great before the Lord: For men abhorred the offering of the Lord. 18 But the childe Samuel ministred before the Lorde, girded with a linnen Ephod. 19 Moreouer, his mother made him a litle coate, and brought it to him from yere to yere, when she came vp with her husband to offer the yerely sacrifice. 20 And Eli blessed Elkana and his wife, and said: The Lorde geue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord. And they went vnto their owne home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sons: Hosea 4:6-9, Malachi 2:1-9

sons of Belial: 1 Samuel 10:27, 1 Samuel 25:17, Deuteronomy 13:13, Judges 19:22, 1 Kings 21:10, 1 Kings 21:13, 2 Corinthians 6:15

knew: 1 Samuel 3:7, Judges 2:10, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 22:16, John 8:55, John 16:3, John 17:3, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:28-30

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:2 - I know not Numbers 17:10 - rebels 1 Samuel 1:3 - And the 1 Samuel 1:16 - a daughter 1 Samuel 3:13 - his sons 1 Samuel 4:4 - Hophni 2 Samuel 16:7 - man of Belial 2 Samuel 20:1 - a man 2 Samuel 23:6 - the sons Job 18:21 - knoweth Isaiah 56:11 - they are Jeremiah 9:3 - they know Jeremiah 31:34 - Know the Ezekiel 22:26 - priests Hosea 5:4 - and Nahum 1:11 - wicked counsellor Zephaniah 3:4 - her priests John 7:28 - whom Romans 16:18 - but 2 Thessalonians 1:8 - that know

Cross-References

Exodus 28:20
In the fourth a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they shalbe set in golde in their inclosers.
Exodus 39:13
In the fourth rowe, a Turcas, an Onyx, and a Iaspis: and they were closed in ouches of golde in their inclosers.
Numbers 11:7
The Manna was as coriander seede, and to see to lyke Bedellion.
Job 28:16
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphires may be valued with her.
Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast ben in the pleasaunt garden of God, thou art deckt with all maner of precious stones, with ruby, topas, diamond, thurkis, onyx, iasper, saphir, emeralde, carbuncle, and golde: the workemanship of thy timbrels and of thy pipes [that be] in thee, was prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial,.... Not that Eli their father was Belial, a wicked man; but though they had so good a father, they were very wicked men, unprofitable abandoned wretches, that cast off the yoke of the law of God, and gave themselves up to all manner of wickedness:

they knew not the Lord; not that they had no knowledge of God in theory, or were real atheists, but they were so practically; they denied him in works, they had no love to him, nor fear of him, and departed from his ways and worship, as much as if they were entirely ignorant of him; so the Targum,

"they did not know to fear before the Lord,''

or serve him; or, as Kimchi,

"they did not know the way of the Lord,''

that is, practically.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sons of Belial - See the marginal reference note. The phrase is very frequent in the books of Samuel. In the New Testament, Paul contrasts Christ and Belial, as if Belial were the name of an idol or the personification of evil 2 Corinthians 6:15. This probably led to the use of the term “Belial” in the the King James Version, instead of expressing its meaning, which is “mischief, wickedness.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:12. The sons of Eli were sons of Belial — They were perverse, wicked, profligate men; devil's children. They knew not the Lord.

"THEY know! nor would an angel show Him;

They would not know, nor choose to know Him."


These men were the principal cause of all the ungodliness of Israel. Their most execrable conduct, described 1 Samuel 2:13-17, caused the people to abhor the Lord's offering. An impious priesthood is the grand cause of the transgressions and ruin of any nation; witness France, Germany, Spain, Ac., from 1792 to 1814.


 
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