A moment in scripture
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
The surrounding passage
- 1 Samuel 2:10
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Samuel 2:11
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.
- 1 Samuel 2:13
And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
- 1 Samuel 2:14
And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.