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Eli’s Sons:\u00a0Hophni and Phinehas<\/h2>\n
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The sons of Eli are on the list of jerks for being the worst sons in history. For starters, they were the spoiled rotten kids of the priest at Shiloh. Essentially they were PK’s, and if you don’t know what that means then you need to read this ->link.<\/a><- 1 Samuel 2:12-17\u00a0<\/strong> 16<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>If the person said to him, \u201cLet the fat\u00a0be burned first, and then take whatever you want,\u201d the servant would answer, \u201cNo, hand it over now; if you don\u2019t, I\u2019ll take it by force.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 17<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>This sin of the young men was very great in the\u00a0Lord\u2019s sight, for they\u00a0were treating the\u00a0Lord\u2019s offering with contempt.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As if their behavior with the temple visitors was not bad enough the Jersey Shore boys had been “seducing” the women of the temple. Now I know what your thinking and no they were not sleeping with temple prostitutes. These were legit young women who did menial tasks around the temple. Much like the\u00a0Spanish\u00a0maids in today’s culture. Except\u00a0Hophni and Phinehas treated them like French maids.<\/p>\n Hophni and Phinehas were so bad that Eli was even punished by God for not handling the situation!<\/p>\n 1 Samuel 2:27-34 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/sup>Now a man of God\u00a0came to Eli and said to him, \u201cThis is what the\u00a0Lord\u00a0says: \u2018Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor\u2019s family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh?\u00a028<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>I chose\u00a0your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense,\u00a0and to wear an ephod\u00a0in my presence. I also gave your ancestor\u2019s family all the food offerings\u00a0presented by the Israelites.\u00a029<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>Why do you\u00a0scorn my sacrifice and offering\u00a0that I prescribed for my dwelling?\u00a0Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n 30<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cTherefore the\u00a0Lord, the God of Israel, declares: \u2018I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.\u00a0\u2019 But now the\u00a0Lord\u00a0declares: \u2018Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor,\u00a0but those who despise\u00a0me will be disdained.\u00a031<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,\u00a032<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>and you will see distress\u00a0in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.\u00a033<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants\u00a0will die in the prime of life.<\/em><\/p>\n 34<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>\u201c\u2018And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign\u00a0to you\u2014they will both die\u00a0on the same day.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are times when you might upset someone they are going to have it out for you, but you know it’s a bad day when the person that wants to take you out is the Lord himself!<\/p>\n 1 Samuel 2:25<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0His sons, however, did not listen to their father\u2019s rebuke, for it was the\u00a0Lord\u2019s will to put them to death<\/span>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n For the second entry in the “Jerks of the Bible” series, we are going to get into double trouble. If you have read the book of Samuel you will recall the\u00a0delinquent\u00a0sons of Eli. The \u00a0sons of Eli (Hophni and Phinehas) were basically the modern equivalent of the Lehman Brothers, except they didn’t file for bankruptcy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[273,274],"tags":[912,293,911,910,501,502,35,337,913,914,56,296,289,292,100,286,285,295,288,275,290,294,154,287,186,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnyways, \u00a0these unbelievably jerky sons were growing up with little supervision and were expected to work for their father at the temple in Shiloh. At various times through the year faithful followers of YHWH would come to the temple and offer their sacrifices to the Lord. It was a spiritual journey for most and was a deeply solemn and meaningful event. For Eli’s sons it mean buffet time!!<\/p>\nWhy They Are Jerks<\/h3>\n
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\nEli\u2019s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord.\u00a013<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>Now it was the practice\u00a0of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest\u2019s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat\u00a0was being boiled14<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.\u00a015<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>But even before the fat was burned, the priest\u2019s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, \u201cGive the priest some meat to roast; he won\u2019t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nMore Jerk-tasticness<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>1 Samuel 2:22-25 \u00a0<\/strong>Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything\u00a0his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women\u00a0who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.\u00a023<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>So he said to them, \u201cWhy do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours.\u00a024<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the\u00a0Lord\u2019s people is not good.\u00a025<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>If one person sins against another, God\u00a0may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the\u00a0Lord, who will\u00a0intercede\u00a0for them?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe height of jerk-osity<\/h3>\n
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