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## 1 Samuel 2:18-21 in Context (Verses 15–24 KJV)
 
 [15 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/15) Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/16) And *if* any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and *then* take *as much* as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, *Nay;* but thou shalt give *it me* now: and if not, I will take *it* by force.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/17) Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/18) ¶ But Samuel ministered before the LORD, *being* a child, girded with a linen ephod.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/19) Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought *it* to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/20) ¶ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/21) And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/22) ¶ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled *at* the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.*
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/23) And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.*
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-samuel/2/24) Nay, my sons; for *it is* no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.*
 
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