1 Samuel 2:24
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report which I hear the LORD'S people do spread abroad.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:17And the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men dealt contemptuously with the offering of the LORD.
1 Kings 13:18And he said unto him: 'I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water.' — He lied unto him. —
2 Kings 10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he 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 →