1 Samuel 2:15

Modern English Version

Even before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast. For he will not take boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and its entrails.

Leviticus 3:16

The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites, and through smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Philippians 3:19

Their destination is destruction, their god is their appetite, their glory is in their shame, their minds are set on earthly things.

Jude 1:12

These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

1 Samuel 2:14

And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot, and all that the fork brought up the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

1 Samuel 2:16

If any man said to him, “Let them first burn the fat and then take as much as you wish,” then he would answer him, “No, but you will give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force.”