1 Samuel 2:24

Nay my sons, for the report which I hear is not good; do not so, for + 2:24 Or, the reports which I hear of the people not serving, etc. Comp. 1 Chr. 13. 4.the reports which I hear are not good, so that the people do not serve God.

Brenton Septuagint

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 do ye according to this thing, which I hear from the mouth of all the people of the Lord?

25If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would by all means destroy them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:17So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they set at nought the offering of the Lord.

1 Kings 13:18And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back to thee into thy house, and let him eat bread and drink water: but he lied to him.

2 Kings 10:31But Ju took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

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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