24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.
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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)In these verses we have the good character and posture of Elkanah’s family, and the bad character and posture of Eli’s family. The account of these two is observably interwoven throughout this whole paragraph, as if the historian intended to set the one over against the other, that they might set off one another. The devotion and good order of Elkanah’s family aggravated the iniquity of Eli’s hous…
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