World English Bible
1 Samuel 2:23
“He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 2
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 lay 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 sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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