1 Samuel 2:23

And hee saide vnto them, Why doe ye such things? for of all this people I heare euill reportes of you.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

22So Eli was very olde, and heard all that his sonnes did vnto all Israel, and howe they laye with the women that assembled at the doore of the tabernacle of the Congregation.

24Do no more, my sonnes, for it is no good report that I heare, which is, that ye make the Lords people to trespasse.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:6And his father would not displease him from his childehood, to say, Why hast thou done so? And hee was a very goodly man, and his mother bare him next after Absalom.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showres haue beene restrained, and the latter raine came not, and thou haddest a whores forehead: thou wouldest not bee ashamed.

Acts 9:4And hee fell to the earth, and heard a voyce, saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Philippians 3:19Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde 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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