12 Now the sons of Eli xwere yworthless men. They zdid not know the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:17
Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Samuel 3:13
And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
Deuteronomy 13:13
that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,
Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”
1 Samuel 1:16
Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”
1 Kings 21:10
And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
2 Chronicles 13:7
and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.
Job 34:18
who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’
and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’
Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
Nahum 1:11
From you came one
who plotted evil against the LORD,
a worthless counselor.
Judges 2:10
And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.
Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,
such is the place of him who knows not God.”
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
Those who handle the law did not know me;
the shepherds transgressed against me;
the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after things that do not profit.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Jeremiah 9:6
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,
and on the peoples that call not on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob;
they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.
John 8:19
They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
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