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10 Bible verses about Eli KJV
Eli heard what his sons were doing and spoke to them about it, and that was the whole of it. The charge against him is four words: he restrained them not. He trained Samuel well and lost his own house.
The verse people usually mean · 1 Samuel 3:13 · KJV
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Also called Hophni and Phinehas · Speak Lord for Thy Servant Heareth · He Restrained Them Not
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1 Samuel 1:9 · KJV
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
1 Samuel 1:14 · KJV
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
1 Samuel 1:17 · KJV
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
1 Samuel 2:12 · KJV
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
1 Samuel 2:22 · KJV
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Samuel 2:29 · KJV
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 3:9 · KJV
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 3:13 · KJV
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel 3:18 · KJV
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
1 Samuel 4:18 · KJV
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
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