1 Samuel 2:23
and he says to them, “Why do you do things like these? For I am hearing of your evil words from all the people—these!
Literal Standard Version
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
Cross References
1 Kings 1:6and his father has not grieved him [all] his days, saying, “Why have you done this?” And he also [is] of a very good form, and [his mother] bore him after Absalom.
Jeremiah 3:3And showers are withheld, and there has been no spring rain. You have the forehead of a whorish woman, || You have refused to be ashamed.
Acts 9:4and having fallen on the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
Philippians 3:19whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and whose glory [is] in their shame, who are minding the things on earth.
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 →