 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 554 pages
...all was, their mean, contemptuous thoughts of God. 1 Sam ii. 12. 29, SO. The sous of Eli were sows of Belial, they knew not the Lord. And thus we see...live to ourselves ultimately, and delight wholly in tfhat which is not God, is, (whether we are sensible of it of fiot,) directly contrary to God's holy... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 454 pages
...before our Lord came into the world. In the verses preceding the text we read, (ver. 12, &c.) " Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord." They •were wicked to an uncommon degree. Their profane violence, with respect to the sacrifices,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pages
...to Ramah to his house ; and the -fs- child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord ; for men abhorred the offering of... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 pages
...holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. (wj 1 Sam. 2. 12. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord. Compared with 1 Sam. 3. 13. For I have told him, that I will jutige his house forever, for the imc¡uitj... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1820 - 660 pages
...priesthood, in the persons of Hophni and Phinehas the two sons of Eli : it it as follows : — • " Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord. And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. And Eli was very old and heard what his sons did, but he only said, Nay my sons, it is no good "' report... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines. — Judges xiv. 3, 4. The sons of Eli were sons of Belial ; they knew not the Lord. — 1 Sam. ii. 12. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...Scripture the children of Belial, Deut. xiii. 13. So the sons of Eli are called 1 Sam. ii. 12. NOB the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord. So the men of Gibeah, who abused the Levite's wife, Judg. xix. 22- «f called likewise son* of Belal'f... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1827
...Psalms were the only part he had seen. — Henderson's Researches in Russia. SHORT SEHMON. " Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord."— ,I Sam. ii. I2. What Christian parent can read this text without concern ? and what child of a Christian... | |
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Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand... 
