24Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.


In Context

21 And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord.

22 Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:

23 And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

24 Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.

25 If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

26 But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the Lord and men.

1 Samuel 2:24 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:24No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear spreading among the Lord 's people.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’S people to transgress.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:24Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to transgress.