1 Samuel 8:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

According to all their works, they have done from the day that I brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

American Standard Version (1901)

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Common English Bible

But Samuel’s sons didn’t follow in his footsteps. They tried to turn a profit, they accepted bribes, and they perverted justice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 8:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:4

And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went to Hebron.

Psalm 15:5

I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover my reins also have corrected me even till night.

Psalm 26:10

For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Exodus 18:21

4 And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had suggested unto him.

Exodus 23:6

Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:8

1 But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may eat, and whatsoever shall be left, let the beasts of the field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy vineyard and thy oliveyard.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

6 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Isaiah 1:23

1 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

Isaiah 33:15

3 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy mast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread the flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall take the spoil.

Micah 3:11

And I will make her that halted, a remnant: and her that hath been afflicted, a mighty nation: and the Lord will reign over them in mount Sion, from this time now and for ever.

Deuteronomy 16:19

When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant,

1 Timothy 3:3

2 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.

1 Timothy 6:10

9 To lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the true life.

1 Samuel 12:2

Now therefore stand up, that I may plead in judgment against you before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and to your fathers:

1 Samuel 2:35

And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I.