The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand;
"Their sin was particularly egregious since they were supposed to be teaching morality and representing the people of God (1 Samuel 2:22-25; cf. 2 Chronicles 17:7-9)." [Note: Heater, p. 120.] 