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1 Samuel 2:24

Good News Translation

Stop it, my sons! This is an awful thing the people of the Lord are talking about!

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Like his father before him, he sinned against the Lord and led Israel into sin.

This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by the sins that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.

But Jehu did not obey with all his heart the Law of the Lord, the God of Israel; instead, he followed the example of Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin.

He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”

“But now you priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have broken the covenant I made with you.

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them!

So then, friends, choose seven men among you who are known to be full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, and we will put them in charge of this matter.

We are honored and disgraced; we are insulted and praised. We are treated as liars, yet we speak the truth;

He should be a man who is respected by the people outside the church, so that he will not be disgraced and fall into the Devil's trap.

They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.

Everyone speaks well of Demetrius; truth itself speaks well of him. And we add our testimony, and you know that what we say is true.

But this is what I have against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a messenger of God. By her teaching she misleads my servants into practicing sexual immorality and eating food that has been offered to idols.

This sin of the sons of Eli was extremely serious in the Lord's sight, because they treated the offerings to the Lord with such disrespect.

Eli was now very old. He kept hearing about everything his sons were doing to the Israelites and that they were even sleeping with the women who worked at the entrance to the Tent of the Lord's presence.

So he said to them, “Why are you doing these things? Everybody tells me about the evil you are doing.




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