1 Samuel 2:10–17

¹⁰The adversaries of the Lord shall be ^tbroken to pieces;

^uOut of heaven shall he thunder upon them:

^wThe Lord shall judge the ends of the earth;

And he shall give strength unto his king,

And ^xexalt the horn of his anointed.

¹¹And Elkanah went to ^yRamah to his house. ^zAnd the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

¹²Now the sons of Eli were ^asons of Belial; ^bthey knew not the Lord. ¹³And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; ¹⁴And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; ^call that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. ¹⁵Also before they ^dburnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. ¹⁶And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat ^†presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force. ¹⁷Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great ^ebefore the Lord: for men ^fabhorred the offering of the Lord.