1 Samuel 2:10–17

¹⁰“^aThose who contend with Yahweh will be dismayed;

^bAgainst them He will thunder in the heavens;

^cYahweh will render justice to the ends of the earth,

^dAnd He will give strength to His king,

^eAnd He will exalt the ¹horn of His anointed.”

¹¹Then Elkanah went to his home at ^aRamah. ^bBut the young boy ministered to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

The Sin of Eli’s Sons

¹²Now the sons of Eli were ^1avile men; they did not know Yahweh.

^13aAnd this was the legal judgment for the priests with the people: when any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.

¹⁴Then he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot; all that the fork would bring up the priest would take for himself. Thus they would do in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

¹⁵Also, before ^athey offered up the fat in smoke, the priest’s young man would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting; he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”

¹⁶Then the man would say to him, “They must surely offer up the fat in smoke ¹first, and then take as much as your soul desires,” then he would say, “No, you shall give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

¹⁷Thus the sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh, for the men ^aspurned the offering of Yahweh.