1 Samuel 2:12 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah.

KJV

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The sons of Eli were sons of Belial - They were perverse, wicked, profligate men; devil’s children. They knew not the Lord. “They know! nor would an angel show Him; They would not know, nor choose to know Him.” These men were the principal cause of all the ungodliness of Israel. Their most execrable conduct, described 1Sa 2:13-17, caused the people to abhor the Lord’s offering. An impious priesthood is the grand cause of the transgressions and ruin of any nation; witness France, Germany, Spain, Ac., from 1792 to 1814.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Though professionally engaged in sacred duties, they were not only strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had thrown off its restraints, and even ran, as is sometimes done in similar cases by the sons of eminent ministers, to the opposite extreme of reckless and open profligacy.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵ֥י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] sons of	H1121 →
עֵלִ֖י	'e.Li	Eli	H5941 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[were] sons of	H1121 →
בְלִיָּ֑עַל	ve.li.Ya.'al	worthlessness	H1100 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָדְע֖וּ	ya.de.'U	they knew	H3045 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
leads to
- Ephesians 4:17–18
  So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
- 2 Kings 17:15
  They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding…
- Jeremiah 2:5
  This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- 2 Timothy 3:2
  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- Psalms 50:23
  He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
Through
Judges 2:10
After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
leads to
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Exodus 5:2
  But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Through
2 Corinthians 6:15
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:20–21
  No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.