World English Bible
1 Samuel 2:22
“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.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 2
20
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.
21
Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
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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.
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He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
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No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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