1 Samuel 3:13
and I have declared to him that I am judging his house — to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:12and the sons of Eli [are] sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.
1 Samuel 2:22And Eli [is] very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling [at] the opening of the tent of meeting,
1 Kings 2:44And the king saith unto Shimei, 'Thou hast known all the evil that thy heart hath known, which thou didst to David my father, and Jehovah hath turned back thine evil on thy head,
Proverbs 19:18Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Ezekiel 7:3Now [is] the end unto thee, And I have sent Mine anger upon thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 3:12-19
Eli and His House Threatened. ( b. c. 1128.) 11 And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. 14 And therefore I have sworn unto the… Read the whole commentary →