He said, &c. — Eli's sin was not only that he reproved them too gently, but that he contented himself with a verbal rebuke, and did not restrain them, and inflict those punishments upon them which such high crimes deserved by God's law, and which he as judge and high — priest ought to have done, without respect of persons.
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1 Samuel 2:23
23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.