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NASB | 1 Samuel 2:13 and the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Samuel 2:13 and the custom of the priests with [the sacrifices of] the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged [meat] fork in his hand; |
Subject: Where the priest impatient and greedy? |
Bible Note: 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 |