1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

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In The King James Version

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’S people to transgress.

In Context

23And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.

25If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:17And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.

1 Kings 13:18Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.

2 Kings 10:31But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

Matthew 18:7A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

2 Corinthians 6:8By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;

2 Peter 2:18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

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 →

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