23He said to them, |Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.


In Context

20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, |Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.| They went to their own home.

21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

23 He said to them, |Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

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

25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?| Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

1 Samuel 2:23 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:23So he said to them, "Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:23and he saith to them, 'Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people — these!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:23And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.