1Sa 2:10-17 | ESV | STEP | The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces ; against them he will thunder in heaven . The Lord will judge the ends of the earth ; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed .

1 Samuel 2:10-17

10 ^aThe adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces;
^bagainst them he will thunder in heaven.
^cThe Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
he will give strength to his king
^dand exalt the horn of his anointed.”
11 Then Elkanah went home ^eto Ramah. ^fAnd the boy ^{▼▼Hebrew na‘ar can be rendered boy (2:11, 18, 21, 26; 3:1, 8), servant (2:13, 15), or young man (2:17), depending on the context} was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.

Eli’s Worthless Sons

12 Now the sons of Eli were ^hworthless men. ⁱThey did not know the Lord. 13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, 14 and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. 15 Moreover, ^jbefore the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.” 16 And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.” 17 Thus the sin of the young men was very great ^kin the sight of the Lord, ^lfor the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.