1 Samuel 2:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

Usually the people answered, “Take what you want. But first, let us sacrifice the fat to the Lord.” “No,” the servant would reply. “If you don't give it to me now, I'll take it by force.”

Cross References

Leviticus 3:16

One of the priests will put these pieces on the altar and send them up in smoke as a food offering with a smell that pleases me. All fat belongs to me.

Micah 3:5

You lying prophets promise security for anyone who gives you food, but disaster for anyone who refuses to feed you. Here is what the Lord says to you prophets:

Nehemiah 5:15

Each governor before me had been a burden to the people by making them pay for his food and wine and by demanding forty silver coins a day. Even their officials had been a burden to the people. But I respected God, and I didn't think it was right to be so hard on them.

Judges 18:25

“We don't want to hear any more about it,” the people of Dan said. “And if you make us angry, you'll only get yourself and your family killed.”

1 Samuel 2:15

Sometimes, when people were offering sacrifices, the servant would come over, even before the fat had been cut off and sacrificed to the Lord. Then the servant would tell them, “The priest doesn't want his meat boiled! Give him some raw meat that he can roast!”

1 Samuel 2:17

Eli's sons did not show any respect for the sacrifices that the people offered. This was a terrible sin, and it made the Lord very angry.