1 Samuel 2:36
Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.
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1 Samuel 2:36
Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.
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1 Samuel 2:27
And a man of God came to Eli and said to him, The Lord says, Did I let myself be seen by your father's people when they were in Egypt, servants in Pharaoh's house?
1 Samuel 2:28
Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?
1 Samuel 2:29
Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?
1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
1 Samuel 2:31
See, the days are coming when your arm and the arm of your father's people will be cut off;
1 Samuel 2:32
And never again will there be an old man in your family.
1 Samuel 2:33
But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.
1 Samuel 2:34
And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.
Ezra 8:2
Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
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1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.
Ezekiel 40:46
And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.
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Proverbs 6:26
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
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1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.
1 Samuel 3:13
And you are to say to him that I will send punishment on his family for ever, for the sin which he had knowledge of; because his sons have been cursing God and he had no control over them.
1 Samuel 3:14
So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.
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2 Samuel 3:29
May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!
2 Kings 5:27
Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
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Psalms 109:9
Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Psalms 109:11
Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
Psalms 109:12
Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.
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Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
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Ezekiel 13:19
And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
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Exodus 29:23
And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:
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Job 15:23
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Job 18:12
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
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Proverbs 28:21
It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.
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2 Kings 23:9
Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.
Ezekiel 44:11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.
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1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
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