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1 | Where the priest impatient and greedy? | 1 Sam 2:13 | Val | 206118 | ||
Eli's sons were interrupting the priests in their offering to the Lord. They were not to take the meat until the priest had prepared the fat for the Lord. By their doing this, they were eating the fat. A word study on "fat" shows it was to be the Lord's part. A reading of Lev. 10:1-7 shows how serious offense this was. In essence the behavior was not regarding the Lord as Holy. A reading of 1 Samuel 2:29-36 shows the Lord confronting Eli about this situation. It seems Eli may have been eating the fat as well because he was very fat. For this he and his sons were told what their judgement would be and again in 1 Sam. 3:13. 1 Sam 3:13 "For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them. What they were doing poking the fork in the pot was taking the fat which was the Lord's. They were taking the meat from the pot. The Lord gives instructions and if those instructions are not followed there are consequences. This same truth applies today. God judges sin. Eli failed by not rebuking his sons. As a consequence his sons die on the same day and Eli falls and dies when he hears the news. The ark is taken by Israel's enemies thus the whole nation suffers. 1 Sam 4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set so that he could not see. 1 Sam 4:16 The man said to Eli, "I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I escaped from the battle line today." And he said, "How did things go, my son?" 1 Sam 4:17 Then the one who brought the news replied, "Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken." 1 Sam 4:18 When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years. Blessings, Val |
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2 | Where the priest impatient and greedy? | 1 Sam 2:13 | remorse2 | 206143 | ||
Val Thanks for your input but your have not answered my question. Eli was the priest therefore Eli's sons were priests as well by birthright. Eli's sons could not have been interrupting the priests because they were the priests. I agree Eli's sons had no regard for the Levitical law concerning the sacrifice. They wanted to stick to the CUSTOM of the day. In other words the custom of sticking a fork in a pot of meat may have had as much biblical basis as celebrating Christmas on the 25th of Dec. No sound "biblical" basis it is just church custom. So now the original question rephrased: Is there anywhere in the Levitical law concerning the sacrifice that outlines a procedure whereby the priest or his servant is allowed to stick a fork in the pot of boiling sacrificial meat? Yes I agree Eli was making a ton of mistakes here. Eli had the authority to remove his sons from this position but he did not. Bad move on his part. Eli does chastise them and tell them what they were doing with the women was wrong. But all he did was chastise. He did not remove them from their priestly office as Samuel will do with his sons in a few years. Eli was a talker he was not a doer. Albert |
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