1 Samuel 2:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And he said to them, Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

Common English Bible

²³ Eli said to his sons, “Why are you doing these terrible things that I’m hearing about from everybody?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And he said to them: "Why are you doing these kinds of things, very wicked things, that I have heard from all the people?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

1 Samuel 2:23 Cross References

1 Kings 1:6

His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man; and he was born next after Absalom.

Isaiah 3:9

Their partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Acts 9:4

And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

1 Samuel 2:22

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

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.