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1 Samuel 2:23 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 23
And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.1 Samuel 2:23 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:23 in context
21And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
22Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.
25If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- dealingsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
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In these verses we have the good character and posture of Elkanah's family, and the bad character and posture of Eli's family. The account of these two is observably interwoven throughout this whole paragraph, as if the historian intended to set the one over against the other, that they might set off one another.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-26