1 Samuel 2:23

He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

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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 Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:6His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, “Why have you done so?” and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Acts 9:4He fell on the earth, and 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 think about 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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