Discovery Box1 Samuel 2:12 
Context2:12 The sons of Eli were wicked men. 1 They did not recognize the Lord’s authority. 2
1 Samuel 2:17
Context2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they 3 treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.
1 Samuel 2:22-26
Context2:22 Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel 4 and how they used to have sex with 5 the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 2:23 He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these 6 people. 2:24 This ought not to be, 7 my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good. 2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons 8 would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided 9 to kill them.
2:26 Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.
1 tn Heb “sons of worthlessness.”
2 tn Heb “they did not know the
3 tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “to all Israel.”
5 tn Heb “lie with.”
6 tc For “these” the LXX has “of the Lord” (κυρίου, kuriou), perhaps through the influence of the final phrase of v. 24 (“the people of the
7 tn Heb “no.”
8 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “desired.”
