13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
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Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)Here is, I. The message which, after all this introduction, God delivered to Samuel concerning Eli’s house. God did not come to him now to tell him how great a man he should be in his day, what a figure he should make, and what a blessing he should be in Israel. Young people have commonly a great curiosity to be told their fortune, but God came to Samuel, not to gratify his curiosity, but to emplo…
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