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1 Samuel 2:25 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 25
If 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.1 Samuel 2:25 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:25 in context
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.
27And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?
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Key words (Strong's)
- hearkenedshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- judgeʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
- judgepâlalto judgeH6419 →
- voiceqôwla voice or soundH6963 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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