1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons; for the report that I hear is not good, which the Lord's people spread abroad.
Leeser Tanakh
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 despised the offering of the Lord.
1 Kings 13:18And he said unto him, I also am a prophet like thee; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But 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 Jerobo'am, who induced 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 →