The Book of 1 Samuel, verse by verse...

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1 Samuel 2:12 (KJV) Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

 

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1 Samuel 2:13 (KJV) 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;

 

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[bible]1 Samuel 2:14[/bible]

 

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1 Samuel 2:15 (KJV) Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

 

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1 Samuel 2:16 (KJV) And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

 

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[bible]1 Samuel 2:17[/bible]

 

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1 Samuel 2:18 (KJV) But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

 

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[bible]1 Samuel 2:19[/bible]

 

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1 Samuel 2:20 (KJV) And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.

 

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1 Samuel 2:21
And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

 

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1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old; and he heard everything his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

 

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1 Samuel 2:23 (KJV) And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

 

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1 Samuel 2:24
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord's people to transgress.

 

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1 Samuel 2:25 (KJV) If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

 

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1Sa 2:26 And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men

 

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1 Samuel 2:27 (KJV) And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

 

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1Sa 2:28 even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be priest to Me, to go up on My altar, to cause incense to smoke, to bear an ephod before Me? And did I give to your father's house all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

 

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1 Samuel 2:29 (KJV) Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

 

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[bible]1 Samuel 2:30[/bible]

 

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1 Samuel 2:31 (KJV) Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.