Eli Remonstrates with his Sons.
1 Samuel 2:22. and. how that. meeting: should probably be omitted with LXX (cf. Exodus 38:8). tent of meeting: see Exodus 33:7.
1 Samuel 2:24. that I hear, etc.: better, which I hear the Lord's people do spread abroad (mg.).
1 Samuel 2:25. judge him: render mediate for him.
1 Samuel 2:26. Cf. Luke 2:52.
22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembledd at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.e
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.
26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.