Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Samuel 2:12

"Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah." — 1 Samuel 2:12 (ASV)

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

What a very dreadful thing it was that these sons of a man of God, the sons of God's high priest, were not themselves sons of God, but sons of Belial—foul-hearted, foul-mouthed, foul-living men, who did not know the very God at whose altar they served, and in whose house they lived!