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1 Samuel 2:24 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 24
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.1 Samuel 2:24 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:24 in context
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.
26And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- transgressʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- reportshᵉmûwʻâhsomething heardH8052 →
- LORD'SYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- sonsbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
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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