1 Samuel 2:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Now the sonnes of Eli were wicked men, and knewe not the Lord.

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  • Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests said not, Where is the Lorde? And they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.
  • Judg 2:10 : 10 And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, & another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because that when they knewe God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefull, but became vaine in their thoughtes, and their foolish heart was full of darkenesse.
  • Rom 1:28-30 : 28 For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient, 29 Being full of all vnrighteousnesse, fornication, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, of murther, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the euill part, whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proude, boasters, inuenters of euil things, disobedient to parents,
  • 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the beleeuer with the infidell?
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 Wicked men are gone out from among you, & haue drawen away the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let vs go and serue other gods, which ye haue not knowen,
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 And as they were making their hearts merie, beholde, the men of the citie, wicked men beset the house round about, and smote at the doore, and spake to this olde man the master of the house saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may knowe him.
  • 1 Sam 3:7 : 7 Thus did Samuel, before hee knewe the Lord, and before the word of the Lord was reueiled vnto him.
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the wicked men saide, Howe shall hee saue vs? So they despised him, and brought him no presents: but he held his tongue.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Nowe therefore take heede, and see what thou shalt doe: for euill will surely come vpon our master, and vpon all his familie: for he is so wicked that a man can not speake to him.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And set two wicked men before him, & let them witnesse against him, saying, Thou diddest blaspheme God and the King: then cary him out, and stone him that he may dye.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And there came two wicked men, & sate before him: & the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he dyed.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?
  • Hos 4:6-9 : 6 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I chaunge their glorie into shame. 8 They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie. 9 And there shalbe like people, like Priest: for I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and reward them their deedes.
  • Mal 2:1-9 : 1 And now, O ye Priests, this commandement is for you. 2 If yee will not heare it, nor consider it in your heart, to giue glory vnto my Name, sayth the Lorde of hostes, I will euen sende a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: yea, I haue cursed them alreadie, because yee doe not consider it in your heart. 3 Behold, I wil corrupt your seede, and cast dongue vpon your faces, euen the dongue of your solemne feastes, and you shall be like vnto it. 4 And yee shall know, that I haue sent this commaundement vnto you, that my couenant, which I made with Leui, might stand, sayeth the Lord of hostes. 5 My couenant was with him of life and peace, and I gaue him feare, and he feared mee, and was afraid before my Name. 6 The lawe of trueth was in his mouth, and there was no iniquitie founde in his lippes: hee walked with me in peace and equitie, & did turne many away from iniquitie. 7 For the Priestes lippes shoulde preserue knowledge, and they shoulde seeke the Lawe at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lorde of hostes. 8 But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes. 9 Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.
  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.
  • John 16:3 : 3 And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 13:13
    74%

    13Wicked men are gone out from among you, & haue drawen away the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let vs go and serue other gods, which ye haue not knowen,

  • Judg 2:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

    10And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, & another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.

    11Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim,

    12And forsooke ye Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, & followed other gods, euen the gods of the people that were round about them, & bowed vnto them, and prouoked the Lord to anger.

    13So they forsooke the Lorde, and serued Baal, and Ashtaroth.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    72%

    11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the childe did minister vnto the Lord before Eli the Priest.

  • 2 Sam 23:6
    72%

    6But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.

  • 1 Sam 25:17
    71%

    17Nowe therefore take heede, and see what thou shalt doe: for euill will surely come vpon our master, and vpon all his familie: for he is so wicked that a man can not speake to him.

  • 1 Sam 2:22-25
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    71%

    22So Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto all Israel, and howe they laye with the women that assembled at the doore of the tabernacle of the Congregation.

    23And hee saide vnto them, Why doe ye such things? For of all this people I heare euill reportes of you.

    24Do no more, my sonnes, for it is no good report that I heare, which is, that ye make the Lords people to trespasse.

    25If one man sinne against another, the Iudge shal iudge it: but if a man sinne against the Lord, who will pleade for him? Notwithstanding they obeyed not the voyce of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

  • 1 Sam 2:13
    70%

    13For the Priestes custome towarde the people was this: when any man offered sacrifice, the Priestes boy came, while the flesh was seething, and a fleshhooke with three teeth, in his hand,

  • 1 Sam 3:7
    70%

    7Thus did Samuel, before hee knewe the Lord, and before the word of the Lord was reueiled vnto him.

  • Jer 2:8
    70%

    8The priests said not, Where is the Lorde? And they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    70%

    3And this man went vp out of his citie euery yeere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hostes in Shiloh, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas Priests of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 2:17
    70%

    17Therefore the sinne of the yong men was very great before the Lorde: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

  • Jer 5:4
    69%

    4Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.

  • 1 Sam 3:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1Nowe the childe Samuel ministred vnto the Lord before Eli: and the word of the Lord was precious in those dayes: for there was no manifest vision.

    2And at that time, as Eli lay in his place, his eyes began to waxe dimme that he could not see.

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

    13And I haue tolde him that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth, because his sonnes ranne into a slaunder, and he stayed them not.

    14Nowe therefore I haue sworne vnto the house of Eli, that the wickednes of Elis house, shal not be purged with sacrifice nor offring for euer.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
    69%

    7And there are gathered to him vayne men and wicked, and made themselues strong against Rehoboam the sonne of Salomon: for Rehoboboam was but a childe and tender hearted, & coulde not resist them.

  • Deut 29:26
    69%

    26And went and serued other gods and worshipped them: euen gods which they knewe not, and which had giuen them nothing,

  • Judg 19:22
    69%

    22And as they were making their hearts merie, beholde, the men of the citie, wicked men beset the house round about, and smote at the doore, and spake to this olde man the master of the house saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may knowe him.

  • Jer 4:22
    68%

    22For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    68%

    12And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing,

  • 1 Sam 8:3
    68%

    3And his sonnes walked not in his wayes, but turned aside after lucre, and tooke rewards, and peruerted the iudgement.

  • 1 Sam 4:11
    68%

    11And the Arke of God was taken, and the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas died.

  • Hos 5:4
    68%

    4They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

  • Rom 3:17
    67%

    17And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.

  • Judg 20:13
    67%

    13Nowe therefore deliuer vs those wicked men which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away euill from Israel: but the children of Beniamin would not obey the voyce of their brethren the children of Israel.

  • Deut 32:17
    67%

    17They offred vnto deuils, not to God, but to gods whome they knew not: new gods that came newly vp, whome their fathers feared not.

  • 1 Sam 10:27
    67%

    27But the wicked men saide, Howe shall hee saue vs? So they despised him, and brought him no presents: but he held his tongue.

  • Job 30:8
    67%

    8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

  • Lam 4:16
    67%

    16The anger of the Lorde hath scattered them, he will no more regard them: they reuerenced not the face of the Priestes, nor had compassion of the Elders.

  • Prov 28:5
    66%

    5Wicked men vnderstand not iudgemnt: but they that seeke the Lord vnderstand all things.

  • Prov 1:29
    66%

    29Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

  • Judg 14:4
    66%

    4But his father and his mother knewe not that it came of the Lorde, that he should seeke an occasion against the Philistims: for at that time the Philistims reigned ouer Israel.

  • Jude 1:10
    66%

    10But these speake euill of those thinges, which they know not: & whatsoeuer things they know naturally, as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt them selues.

  • Judg 2:17
    66%

    17But yet they would not obey their Iudges: for they went a whoring after other gods, & worshipped them, & turned quickly out of the way, wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandements of the Lord: they did not so.

  • Judg 3:7
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    7So the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, & forgate the Lorde their God, and serued Baalim, and Asheroth.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? They call not vpon the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 25:25
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    25Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.

  • Job 18:21
    66%

    21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    66%

    17And they made their sonnes and their daughters passe thorowe the fire, and vsed witchcraft and inchantments, yea, solde them selues to doe euill in the sight of the Lord, to anger him.

  • Dan 5:22
    66%

    22And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things,

  • 2 Pet 2:15
    66%

    15Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.

  • Amos 3:10
    66%

    10For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lorde: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.