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3 Regum 2:12
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Reddat tibi Dominus pro opere tuo, et plenam mercedem recipias a Domino Deo Isral, ad quem venisti, et sub cujus confugisti alas.
Porro filii Heli, filii Belial, nescientes Dominum,
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
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.
