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NASB | 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 doorway of the tent of meeting. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Samuel 2:22 ¶ Now Eli was very old; and he heard about everything that his sons were doing to all [the people of] Israel, and how they were lying with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle). |
Subject: Was Eli lax in discipline? |
Bible Note: Thank you userdoe213, Mark Sutton and prayon for some excellent answers to this question! Zondervan's NASB Study Bible states, "The immoral acts of Eli's sons are reminiscent of the religious prostitution (fertility rites) at the Canaanite sanctuaries (see 1 Kings 14:24; 15:12; 22:46)- acts that were an abomination to the Lord and a desecration of His house (Deut. 23:17-18)." Nelson's NKJV states, "Eli's protests seem weak in view of the enormity of his sons' sins." MacArthur's NKJV Study Bible adds, "Eli's point to his sons was that if God would surely judge when one sinned against another man, how much more would He bring judgment against those who sinned against Him. 'the LORD desired to kill them'. Because Eli's sons had persisted in their evil ways, God had already determined to judge them. This divine, judicial hardening, the result of defiant refusal to repent in the past, was the reason Hophni and Phinehas refused to heed Eli's warnings." In view of all this, Eli rebuked his sons, but failed to take them out of office. The contrast of the behavior of Eli's sons and the behavior of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:26) is a most telling feature of the beginning of this book. Mark Sutton: I know how you feel being a Pastor's Kid.. I am the oldest son of a man who has been a pastor for all my life! Nolan |
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