1 Samuel 2:12

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Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

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  • Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
  • Judg 2:10 : 10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
  • Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,
  • 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
  • 1 Sam 3:7 : 7 Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
  • Hos 4:6-9 : 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory. 7 Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame. 8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing. 9 And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.
  • Mal 2:1-9 : 1 And now, O you priests, this order is for you. 2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart. 3 See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 4 And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies. 5 My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name. 6 True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing. 7 For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies. 8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies. 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
  • John 8:55 : 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

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  • Deut 13:13
    74%

    13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;

  • Judg 2:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

    10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

    11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

    12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

    13 And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    72%

    11 Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.

  • 2 Sam 23:6
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    6 But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand:

  • 1 Sam 25:17
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    17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

  • 1 Sam 2:22-25
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    22 Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.

    23 And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.

    24 No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

    25 If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

  • 1 Sam 2:13
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    13 And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth;

  • 1 Sam 3:7
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    7 Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.

  • Jer 2:8
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    8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
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    3 Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

  • 1 Sam 2:17
    70%

    17 And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.

  • Jer 5:4
    69%

    4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

  • 1 Sam 3:1-2
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    69%

    1 Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

    2 And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)

  • 1 Sam 3:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.

    14 So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
    69%

    7 And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.

  • Deut 29:26
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    26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

  • Judg 19:22
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    22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

  • Jer 4:22
    68%

    22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    68%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • 1 Sam 8:3
    68%

    3 And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

  • 1 Sam 4:11
    68%

    11 And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.

  • Hos 5:4
    68%

    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Rom 3:17
    67%

    17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

  • Judg 20:13
    67%

    13 Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

  • Deut 32:17
    67%

    17 They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.

  • 1 Sam 10:27
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    27 But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

  • Job 30:8
    67%

    8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

  • Lam 4:16
    67%

    16 The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • Prov 28:5
    66%

    5 Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

  • Prov 1:29
    66%

    29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

  • Judg 14:4
    66%

    4 Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

  • Jude 1:10
    66%

    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Judg 3:7
    66%

    7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

  • Ps 14:4
    66%

    4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 25:25
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    25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

  • Job 18:21
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    21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Dan 5:22
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    22 And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;

  • 2 Pet 2:15
    66%

    15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • Amos 3:10
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    10 For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.