And he said unto them, why do ye such things?
&c.] As to impose upon the people that bring their offerings,
by taking more than is due, and in a very indecent and imperious
manner; and especially to defile the women when they came to
worship: these were very scandalous sins, and deserved a more
severe reprimand, and indeed a greater chastisement than by mere
words; Eli should have rebuked them more sharply, and laid open
the evil of their doings, and as a judge punished them for them:
for I hear of your evil doings by all this
people;
the inhabitants of Shiloh, or who came thither to worship, who
were continually making their complaints to Eli; which still
shows his backwardness to reprove them in the manner he did until
he was obliged to it by the continual remonstrances of the people
against the practices of his sons; he did not attend to the
information he had from a few persons, until it became general.