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Now Eli's sons were worthless men.
1 of 9 1 Samuel 2:12
Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, the priest's servant would take a three-pronged fork and jab it into the cauldron, and everything that came up, the priest would claim for himself.
Even before they had burnt the fat, the priest's servant would come and say, 'Give the priest some meat to roast, or I will take it by force!'
And they would have sex with the women who served at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.
4 of 9 1 Samuel 2:22
Eli, now very old, heard about everything his sons were doing, and said, 'Why are you behaving this way? If a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?'
But they did not listen to their father's words because Yahweh desired to kill them.
6 of 9 1 Samuel 2:25
A man of God came to Eli and told him, 'Yahweh says: I promised that your father's family would walk before me forever. But now I say, may it never be so! '
7 of 9 1 Samuel 2:27
' No one in your family will live to old age. Any I do not cut off from my altar will be spared only to blind your eyes with tears and grief. They will all die in the prime of their lives. '
' As a sign to confirm this to you, your sons Hophni and Phinehas will both die on the same day! '
9 of 9 1 Samuel 2:34
Little Samuel's Message of Doom