1 Samuel 2:24

²² Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled 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.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.

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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
KJV: Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.
WEB: No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make the LORD’s people disobey.
ASV: Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah`s people to transgress.
DARBY: No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.
BLB: No, my sons, for the report [is] not good that I hear spreading among the people of YHWH.

ÅB: Ikke så, mine sønner! Det rykte jeg hører, er ikke godt; dere forfører Herrens folk.
OTB: Mine sønner, rapporten jeg hører spre seg blant Herrens folk er urovekkende.
B1930: Ikke så, mine sønner! Det rykte jeg hører, er ikke godt; I forfører Herrens folk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Kings 15:30
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
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2 Corinthians 6:8
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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Acts 6:3
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
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1 Timothy 3:7
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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Matthew 18:7
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
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1 Samuel 2:17
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
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2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
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