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1 Samuel 2:24

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

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The surrounding passage

  1. 1 Samuel 2:22

    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.

  2. 1 Samuel 2:23

    And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

  3. 1 Samuel 2:25

    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.

  4. 1 Samuel 2:26

    And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.

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