1 Samuel 2:23

Plain English Version

Eli said to his 2 sons, “Lots of people tell me that you do bad things. Why are you doing that?

Cross References

Acts 14:15

“What are you doing? Why are you doing this? Don’t do it. We are just men, like you. We are telling you good news, and we are saying that you have to stop showing respect to things that are not the true God. You have to turn around and follow the God that is alive. He made the sky, and the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

Acts 9:4

He fell down on to the ground, and he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul. Saul. Why are you making trouble for me and hurting me?”

Philippians 3:19

They don’t listen to God. They listen to their own bodies, and they do bad things so that their bodies feel good. They do those bad things, but they don’t feel shame. Instead, they think they are smart. They only think about the things that belong to this world. And in the end God will finish them up for ever.

1 Samuel 2:22

Eli became a really old man. He heard that his 2 sons did wrong things to the Israel people. He also heard that they slept with the women that worked in God’s house, like men sleep with their wives, but those men were not married to those women. Those women worked at the front door of the house.

1 Samuel 2:24

My sons, stop it. Lots of God’s people talk about you. That bad news is everywhere.