1 Samuel 2:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know the LORD.

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  • Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
  • Judg 2:10 : 10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and another generation arose after them, which did not know the LORD, nor the works which he had done for Israel.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  • Rom 1:28-30 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever?
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."
  • 1 Sam 3:7 : 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.
  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he held his peace.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household, for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And set two men, worthless fellows, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die.
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
  • Hos 4:6-9 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity. 9 And it shall be like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.
  • Mal 2:1-9 : 1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. 4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.
  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.
  • John 16:3 : 3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life, that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

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  • Deut 13:13
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    13Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

  • Judg 2:10-13
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    72%

    10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and another generation arose after them, which did not know the LORD, nor the works which he had done for Israel.

    11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

    12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

    13And they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
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    11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child served the LORD before Eli the priest.

  • 2 Sam 23:6
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    6But the sons of Belial shall all be as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

  • 1 Sam 25:17
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    17Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household, for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.

  • 1 Sam 2:22-25
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    22Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and how they lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

    23And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

    24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people transgress.

    25If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless, they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them.

  • 1 Sam 2:13
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    13And this was the priests' custom with the people, that, when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand;

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    7Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.

  • Jer 2:8
    70%

    8The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    70%

    3And this man went up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.

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    17Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for men despised the offering of the LORD.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • 1 Sam 3:1-2
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    69%

    1And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread vision.

    2And it happened at that time, when Eli was lying down in his place, and his eyes had begun to grow dim, that he could not see;

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

    13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows about; because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.

    14And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice or offering forever.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
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    7And there gathered to him worthless men, sons of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not resist them.

  • Deut 29:26
    69%

    26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

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    22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."

  • Jer 4:22
    68%

    22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 1 Sam 8:3
    68%

    3But his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

  • 1 Sam 4:11
    68%

    11And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.

  • Hos 5:4
    68%

    4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Rom 3:17
    67%

    17'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • Judg 20:13
    67%

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

  • Deut 32:17
    67%

    17They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

  • 1 Sam 10:27
    67%

    27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he held his peace.

  • Job 30:8
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    8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

  • Lam 4:16
    67%

    16The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • Prov 1:29
    66%

    29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

  • Judg 14:4
    66%

    4But his father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines, for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  • Jude 1:10
    66%

    10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

  • Judg 3:7
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    7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • 1 Sam 25:25
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    25Please do not let my lord regard this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

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    5They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 18:21
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    21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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    22And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.

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    15They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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    10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.