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ELI

High priest 1SA 1:25; 2:11; 1KI 2:27

Passages on this topic · 37

  • 1 Samuel 1:14

    Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

  • 1 Samuel 1:17

    Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

  • 1 Samuel 1:18

    She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.

  • 1 Samuel 1:24

    When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.

  • 1 Samuel 1:25

    They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

  • 1 Samuel 1:26

    She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

  • 1 Samuel 1:27

    I prayed for this child; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  • 1 Samuel 1:28

    Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

  • 1 Samuel 2:11

    Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

  • 1 Samuel 2:20

    Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

  • 1 Samuel 2:22

    Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  • 1 Samuel 2:23

    He said to them, “Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

  • 1 Samuel 2:24

    No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

  • 1 Samuel 2:25

    If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

  • 1 Samuel 2:27

    A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

  • 1 Samuel 2:28

    Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

  • 1 Samuel 2:29

    Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

  • 1 Samuel 2:30

    “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

  • 1 Samuel 2:31

    Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.

  • 1 Samuel 2:32

    You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

  • 1 Samuel 2:33

    The man of yours, whom I don’t cut off from my altar, will consume your eyes and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.

  • 1 Samuel 2:34

    “‘This will be the sign to you, that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.

  • 1 Samuel 2:35

    I will raise me up a faithful priest, that will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he will walk before my anointed forever.

  • 1 Samuel 2:36

    It will happen, that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

  • 1 Samuel 3:11

    Yahweh said to Samuel, “Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

  • 1 Samuel 3:12

    In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

  • 1 Samuel 3:13

    For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

  • 1 Samuel 3:14

    Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”

  • 1 Samuel 4:11

    God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

  • 1 Samuel 4:12

    A man of Benjamin ran out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with dirt on his head.

  • 1 Samuel 4:13

    When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

  • 1 Samuel 4:14

    When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.

  • 1 Samuel 4:15

    Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

  • 1 Samuel 4:16

    The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?”

  • 1 Samuel 4:17

    He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

  • 1 Samuel 4:18

    When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

  • 1 Kings 2:27

    So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).