1 Samuel 2:22-24

Eli Rebukes His Sons

22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard ¹all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how * they lay with ²the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

23 He said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?

24 "No, my sons; for the report is not good ³which I hear the LORD'S people circulating.

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1 Samuel 2:22-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 2

In this chapter the song of Hannah is recorded, 1Sa 2:1-10, and an account is given of the return of Elkanah and Hannah to their own home, and of the care she took yearly to provide a coat for Samuel, and of her being blessed with many other children, and of the growth and ministry of Samuel before the Lord, 1Sa 2:11,18-21,26, and of the wickedness of the sons of Eli, 1Sa 2:12-17, and of Eli's too gentle treatment of them when he reproved them for it, 1Sa 2:22-25 and of a sharp message sent him from the Lord on that account, threatening destruction to his house, of which the death of his two sons would be a sign, 1Sa 2:27-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 3

1. 1 Samuel 2:13-17
2. Exodus 38:8
3. 1 Kings 15:26

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "making the LORD'S "people transgress"