1 Samuel 2:12
But the sonnes of Eli were children of Belial, and knewe not the Lord.
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- Jer 2:8 : 8 The priestes them selues sayde not, Where is the Lord? They that had the lawe in their handes knewe me not, the sheepheardes offended agaynst me, the prophetes did prophecie in Baal, and folowed such thinges as shal bryng them no profite.
- Judg 2:10 : 10 And euen so all that generation were put vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which neither knewe the Lorde, nor yet the workes whiche he had done for Israel.
- Rom 1:21 : 21 Because that when they knewe God, they glorified hym not as God, neither were thankefull, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations, and their foolishe heart was blynded.
- Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God: euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a leude mynde, that they should do those thinges which were not comely: 29 Beyng full of all vnrighteousnes, fornication, craftynesse, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, murther, debate, deceite, euyll conditioned, whysperers, 30 Backbyters, haters of God, dispiteful, proude, boasters, bryngers vp of euyll thinges, disobedient to father & mother:
- 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 Or what concorde hath Christe with belyall? Eyther what part hath he that beleueth, with an infidell?
- Deut 13:13 : 13 That certaine men beyng the children of Belial, are gone out fro among you, and haue moued the inhabiters of their citie, saying: let vs go and serue straunge gods, whiche ye haue not knowen:
- Judg 19:22 : 22 And as they were makyng their heartes mery, beholde, the men of the citie which were wicked, beset the house rounde about, and thrust at the doore, & spake to the man of the house, the olde man, saying: Bring foorth the man that came into thyne house, that we may knowe him.
- 1 Sam 3:7 : 7 Samuel knewe not yet the Lorde, neither was the worde of the Lorde yet opened vnto hym.
- 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the children of Belial sayd: Howe shall he saue vs? And they despised him, and, brought him no presentes: And he helde his tongue.
- 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore take heede, & see what thou shalt do: for surelie euyll will come vpon our maister and al his housholde, for he is so wicked, that a man can not speake to him.
- 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And set two vnthriftes before him, to beare witnesse against him, saying, Thou dyddest blaspheme God and the king: And then carie him out, and stone him to death.
- 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And there came in two men the children of Belial, and sate before him: And the two vnthriftie persons witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying: Naboth dyd blaspheme God and the king. And they caried him out of the citie, & stoned him with stones, that he died.
- Jer 9:6 : 6 Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people, which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
- Jer 22:16 : 16 Yea, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well: From whence came this, but onlye because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?
- Hos 4:6-9 : 6 My people perishe for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, therfore wyll I refuse thee also, so that thou shalt no more be my priest: and forsomuche as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God, I wyll also forget thy chyldren. 7 The more they increased in multitude, the more they sinned against me, therfore wyll I chaunge their honour into shame. 8 They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and encourage them in their wickednesse. 9 Thus the priest is become lyke the people: Wherfore I wyll punishe them for their wicked wayes, and rewarde them according to their owne imaginations.
- Mal 2:1-9 : 1 And now O ye priestes this comaundement is for you. 2 If ye wyl not heare it nor regard it, to geue the glory to my name, saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll sende a curse vpon you, and wyll curse your blessinges, yea I haue cursed them alredie, because ye do not consider it in your heart. 3 Beholde, I wyll corrupt your seede, and cast doung on your faces, euen the doung of your solempne feastes, & you shalbe like vnto it. 4 And you shall know that I haue sent this comaundement vnto you, that my couenaunt which I haue made with Leui might stand, saith the Lorde of hoastes. 5 My couenaunt was with him, of lyfe and peace, and I gaue them him for the feare wherwith he feared me and was afrayde before my name. 6 The lawe of trueth was in his mouth, and there was no iniquitie found in his lippes, he walked with me in peace and in equitie, and he turned many from their iniquitie. 7 For the priestes lippes shall kepe knowledge, and they shall seeke the lawe at his mouth: because he is the messenger of the Lorde of hoastes. 8 But ye haue gone out of the way, ye haue caused many to fall by the lawe: ye haue corrupted the couenaunt of Leui, saith the Lorde of hoastes. 9 Therefore haue I also made you despised and vyle before all the people, because you kept not my wayes, but haue ben parciall in the lawe.
- John 8:55 : 55 And yet ye haue not knowen him, but I knowe hym: And if I say I knowe hym not, I shalbe a lyer lyke vnto you. But I knowe hym, & kepe his saying.
- John 16:3 : 3 And such thynges wyll they do vnto you, because they haue not knowen the father, neither yet me.
- John 17:3 : 3 This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent.
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13 That certaine men beyng the children of Belial, are gone out fro among you, and haue moued the inhabiters of their citie, saying: let vs go and serue straunge gods, whiche ye haue not knowen:
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10 And euen so all that generation were put vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which neither knewe the Lorde, nor yet the workes whiche he had done for Israel.
11 And then the children of Israel dyd wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and serued Baalim,
12 And forsoke the Lord God of their fathers, whiche brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and folowed straunge goddes, euen of the goddes of the nations that were rounde about them, and bowed them selues vnto them, and angred the Lorde:
13 They forsoke the Lorde, and serued Baal and Astharoth.
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11 And Elkana went to Ramath to his house, and the lad dyd minister vnto the Lorde before Eli the priest.
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6 But the vngodly man, shall be as a thorne cleane pluckt vp, which can not be taken with handes:
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17 Now therefore take heede, & see what thou shalt do: for surelie euyll will come vpon our maister and al his housholde, for he is so wicked, that a man can not speake to him.
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22 Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto Israel, & how they lay with the women that wayted at the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23 And he saide vnto them: Why do ye such thinges? For of all these people I heare euill reportes of you.
24 Oh, nay my sonnes: For it is no good report that I heare, how that ye make the Lordes people to trespasse.
25 If one man sinne against another, the Iudge shall iudge it: But if a man sinne against the Lord, who will be his dayseman? Notwithstandiug, they hearkened not vnto the voyce of their father, because the Lorde would slay the.
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13 And the priestes custome toward the people was, that whensoeuer any man offered any offring, ye priestes lad came whyle the fleshe was a seethyng, and a fleshhoke with three teeth in his hande:
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7 Samuel knewe not yet the Lorde, neither was the worde of the Lorde yet opened vnto hym.
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8 The priestes them selues sayde not, Where is the Lord? They that had the lawe in their handes knewe me not, the sheepheardes offended agaynst me, the prophetes did prophecie in Baal, and folowed such thinges as shal bryng them no profite.
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3 And this man went vp out of his citie euery yere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hoastes in Silo, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehes, the Lordes priestes.
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17 And the sinne of the young men was very great before the Lord: For men abhorred the offering of the Lord.
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4 Therfore I thought in my selfe: peraduenture they are so simple & foolishe that they vnderstande nothyng of the Lordes way, and iudgementes of their God.
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1 And the chylde Samuel ministred vnto the Lorde before Eli, and the worde of the Lord was precious in those dayes, neither was there any open vision.
2 And as at that tyme Eli lay in his place, his eyes began to waxe dymme that he coulde not see.
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13 I haue tolde hym that I wyll iudge his house for euer, for the wickednesse which he knoweth: For whe the people cursed his sonnes for ye same wickednesse he hath not corrected them.
14 And therfore I haue sworne vnto the house of Eli, that the wickednesse of Elies house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offeryng for euer.
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7 And there gathered to him lewde men, the children of Belial, and preuailed against Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not stand before them.
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26 For they went and serued straunge gods, and worshipped them, gods which they knewe not, and which had geuen them nothyng.
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22 And as they were makyng their heartes mery, beholde, the men of the citie which were wicked, beset the house rounde about, and thrust at the doore, & spake to the man of the house, the olde man, saying: Bring foorth the man that came into thyne house, that we may knowe him.
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22 Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome.
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12 For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.
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3 And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewarde, and peruerted the ryght.
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11 And the arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni & Phinehes, were dead.
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4 They wyll not geue their myndes to turne vnto their God: for the spirite of fornication is in the middest of them, and they haue not knowen the Lorde.
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17 And they way of peace haue they not knowen.
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13 Nowe therfore deliuer vs the men, those children of belial whiche are in Gibea, that we may slea them, and put away euill from Israel.
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17 They offered vnto deuils, and not to God: euen to gods whom they knewe not, to newe gods that came newly vp, whom their fathers feared not.
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27 But the children of Belial sayd: Howe shall he saue vs? And they despised him, and, brought him no presentes: And he helde his tongue.
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8 They were the children of fooles and vyllaynes, which are more vile then the earth.
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16 The countenaunce of the Lorde hath banished them, and shall neuer looke more vpon them: for they them selues neither regarded the priestes, nor pitied their elders.
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5 Wicked men vnderstande not iudgement: but they that seeke the Lord, vnderstande all thinges.
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29 And that because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lorde,
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4 But his father and mother wist not that it was the Lordes doyng, and that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines raigned ouer Israel.
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10 But these speake euyl of those thinges which they knowe not: & what thinges they know naturally, as beastes which are without reason, in those thynges they corrupt them selues.
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17 And yet for all that they woulde not hearken vnto their iudges: but rather went a whoring after straunge goddes, and bowed them selues vnto them, and turned quickly out of the way, whiche their fathers walked in, obeying the comaundementes of the Lorde: But they dyd not so.
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7 And the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and forgat the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim and Astheroth.
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4 Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?
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25 Let not my lorde I pray thee regarde this wicked man Nabal: For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, & folly is with him: But I thyne handmayd sawe not the young men of my lorde whom thou sendedst.
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5 They knowe nothyng, they vnderstande nothing: they walke on styll in darknesse, wherfore all the foundations of the earth be out of course.
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21 Such are now the dwellinges of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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17 And they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters in fire, and vsed witchcraftes, & enchauntmentes, euen selling them selues to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and to anger him.
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22 And thou his sonne, O Balthasar, hast not submitted thyne heart, though thou knewest all these thinges:
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15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye, and are gone astray, folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse:
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10 For they know not to do right, sayth the Lorde, they store vp violence and robberie in their palaces.