1 Samuel 2:23

And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:

24Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:6Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Acts 9:4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Philippians 3:19Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

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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