12Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn`t know Yahweh.

13The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest`s servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;

14and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

15Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest`s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.

16If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.

23He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh`s people to disobey.

25If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn`t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

10Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.

11He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

16He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

17He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.

18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.

1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

1I said, Please hear, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?

2you who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

4Then shall they cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them; yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have worked evil in their doings.

5Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who make my people to err; who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoever doesn`t put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

6Therefore it shall be night to you, that you shall have no vision; and it shall be dark to you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

7The seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

9Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11The heads of it judge for reward, and the priests of it teach for hire, and the prophets of it divine for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Is not Yahweh in the midst of us? no evil shall come on us.

12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

12For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.