1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 3:14

3:14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, ‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”


tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.