1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
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- Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
- Judg 2:10 : 10 Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
- Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Rom 1:28-30 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate 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 habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
- Deut 13:13 : 13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away 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 base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
- 1 Sam 3:7 : 7 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed to him.
- 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
- 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.
- 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You did curse God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.
- 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
- Jer 9:6 : 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
- Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
- Hos 4:6-9 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children. 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame. 8 They feed on the sin of my people, And set their heart on their iniquity. 9 It will be, like people, like priest; And I will punish them for their ways, And will repay them for their deeds.
- Mal 2:1-9 : 1 "Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts. 5 "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him who he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, 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 Yahweh of Hosts. 8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts. 9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
- John 8:55 : 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
- John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things{TR adds "to you"} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
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13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
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12 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
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22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
23 He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.
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13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
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7 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them.
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26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
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22 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.
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4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.
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17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
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13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
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17 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread.
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8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
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16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders.
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5 Evil men don't understand justice; But those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
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29 Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.
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10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
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4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?
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25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.
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5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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10 "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."