1 Samuel 2:23
And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
In Context
22Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
24No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:6Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.
Jeremiah 3:3So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
Acts 9:4And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?
Philippians 3:19Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:12-27
Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. ( b. c. 1130.) 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord . 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the… Read the whole commentary →