1 Samuel 2:10–17

¹⁰The adversaries of the Lord shall be ^ubroken in pieces;

^vFrom heaven He will thunder against them.

^wThe Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

^x“He will give ^ystrength to His king,

And ^zexalt the ³horn of His anointed.”

¹¹Then Elkanah went to his house at Ramah. But the child ⁴ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

The Wicked Sons of Eli

¹²Now the sons of Eli were ^acorrupt; ^5bthey did not know the Lord. ¹³And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. ¹⁴Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in ^cShiloh to all the Israelites who came there. ¹⁵Also, before they ^dburned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”

¹⁶And if the man said to him, “They should really burn the fat first; then you may take as much as your heart desires,” he would then answer him, “No, but you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

¹⁷Therefore the sin of the young men was very great ^ebefore the Lord, for men ^fabhorred ⁶the offering of the Lord.