📖WEB · 1 Samuel 2:23
What does 1 Samuel 2:23 mean?
"He said to them, “Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people."
— 1 Samuel 2:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.
Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
Now 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.
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
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