1 Samuel 2:24

Easy-to-Read Version

Sons, stop that! The Lord 's people are saying bad things about you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
No, my sons, the news I hear the Lord’s people spreading is not good.

Hebrew Names Version
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to disobey.

King James Version
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord 's people to transgress.

Lexham English Bible
No, my sons, the report is not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.

English Standard Version
No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

New Century Version
No, my sons. The Lord 's people are spreading a bad report about you.

New English Translation
This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord 's people is not good.

Amplified Bible
"No, my sons; for the report that I keep hearing from the passers-by among the LORD'S people is not good.

New American Standard Bible
"No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the LORD'S people circulating.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Do no more, my sonnes, for it is no good report that I heare, which is, that ye make the Lords people to trespasse.

Legacy Standard Bible
No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the people of Yahweh passing about.

Complete Jewish Bible
No, my sons, I don't hear Adonai 's people spreading a single good report!

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

George Lamsa Translation
No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear; for you drive away the people of the LORD.

Good News Translation
Stop it, my sons! This is an awful thing the people of the Lord are talking about!

Literal Translation
No my sons, for the report which I am hearing is not good, causing the people of Jehovah to transgress.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Not so my childre, this is no good reporte that I heare, ye cause the people of the LORDE to offende.

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

Bible in Basic English
No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Oh, nay my sonnes: For it is no good report that I heare, how that ye make the Lordes people to trespasse.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report which I hear the LORD'S people do spread abroad.

King James Version (1611)
Nay my sonnes: for it is no good report that I heare; yee make the Lords people to transgresse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Nay my sons, for the report which I hear is not good; do not so, for the reports which I hear are not good, so that the people do not serve God.

English Revised Version
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’S people to transgress.

Berean Standard Bible
No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD's people.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nyle ye, my sones; it is not good fame, which Y here, that ye make the `puple of the Lord to do trespas.

Young's Literal Translation
Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --

Update Bible Version
No, my sons; for the report that I hear is not good: you make Yahweh's people to transgress.

Webster's Bible Translation
No, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.

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

New King James Version
No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make the LORD's people transgress.

New Living Translation
You must stop, my sons! The reports I hear among the Lord 's people are not good.

New Life Bible
No, my sons, the news is not good which I hear from the Lord's people.

New Revised Standard
No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nay, my sons! for it is no good report that I do hear: leading into transgression the people of Yahweh.

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

Revised Standard Version
No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the LORD'S people circulating.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Elkanah and his family went home to Ramah, but the boy stayed in Shiloh and served the Lord under Eli the priest. ¹² Eli's sons were evil men who did not care about the Lord . ¹³ They did not care about how priests were supposed to treat people. Whenever someone brings a sacrifice, priests are supposed to put the meat in a pot of boiling water. Then their servant is supposed to get the three-pronged fork ¹⁴ and use it to get some meat out of the pot or kettle. The priest is supposed to take whatever his helper removes from the pot with the special fork. This is what the priests should have done for the Israelites who came to offer sacrifices at Shiloh. ¹⁵ But that is not what the sons of Eli did. Even before the fat was burned on the altar, their servant would go to the people offering sacrifices and say, "Give the priest some meat to roast. The priest won't accept boiled meat from you." ¹⁶ Maybe the man offering the sacrifice would say, "Burn the fat first, and then you can take whatever you want." But the servant would answer: "No, give me the meat now. If you don't give it to me, I'll take it from you!" ¹⁷ In this way Hophni and Phinehas showed that they did not respect the offerings made to the Lord . This was a terrible sin against the Lord . ¹⁸ But Samuel served the Lord . He was a helper who wore the linen ephod. ¹⁹ Every year Samuel's mother made a robe for Samuel. She took the little robe to Samuel when she went up to Shiloh with her husband for the sacrifice every year. ²⁰ Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife. He would say, "May the Lord give you more children through Hannah who will take the place of the boy she prayed for and gave to the Lord ." Elkanah and Hannah went home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

no good: Acts 6:3, 2 Corinthians 6:8, 1 Timothy 3:7, 3 John 1:12

ye make: 1 Samuel 2:17, 1 Samuel 2:22, Exodus 32:21, 1 Kings 13:18-21, 1 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 10:31, Malachi 2:8, Matthew 18:7, 2 Peter 2:18, Revelation 2:20

transgress: or, cry out

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:26 - in his sin 1 Kings 16:2 - hast made my people 2 Kings 10:29 - made Israel 2 Kings 17:21 - a great sin 1 Chronicles 21:3 - why will Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Psalms 73:15 - offend Luke 16:2 - How 1 Corinthians 5:1 - reported

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.

Genesis 2:2
God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it special because on that day he rested from all the work he did while creating the world.

Genesis 2:4
This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.

Genesis 2:6
So water came up from the earth and spread over the ground.

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living thing.

Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed from Eden and watered the garden. The river then separated and became four smaller rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:12
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nay, my sons,.... This seems to be too soft and smooth an appellation, too kind and endearing, considering the offence they were guilty of, and were now reproving for; rather they deserved to be called sons of Belial, the children of the devil, than sons of Eli, or brutes and shameless wretches, and such like hard names:

for it is no good report that I hear; a very bad one; far from being good, scarce anything worse could have been said of them; to rob persons of the flesh of their offerings, when there was a sufficient allowance made for them by law, and to be so impious as to require what was not their due, and even before the Lord had his; and to debauch the women that came to religious worship, and that in the sacred place of worship, they also being priests of the Lord, and married men; sins very shocking and sadly aggravated, and yet Eli treats them in this gentle manner:

ye make the Lord's people to transgress: by causing them to forbear to bring their sacrifices, being used in such an injurious and overbearing way; and by decoying the women into uncleanness, and by setting examples to others: or, "to cry out"; as in the margin of our Bibles, to exclaim against them for their exorbitant and lewd practices; so the Targum,

"the people of the Lord murmur because so ill used by them:''

this clause may be read in connection with the former, "it is no good report that I hear, which ye cause to pass through the Lord's people"; ye occasion the people to speak ill of you everywhere, in the camp of Israel, throughout the whole nation; the report as it is bad, it is general, is in everyone's mouth; so Maimonides u interprets it; with which Jarchi and others agree w.

u Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 21. w Vid. T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 55. 2. & praefat. Ben Chayim. ad Bib. Heb. Bomberg. & Buxtorf.