1 Samuel 2:24

Good News Translation

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

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Sons, stop that! The Lord 's people are saying bad things about you.

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.

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 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah, but the boy Samuel stayed in Shiloh and served the Lord under the priest Eli. ¹² The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the Lord ¹³ or to the regulations concerning what the priests could demand from the people. Instead, when someone was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork. While the meat was still cooking, ¹⁴ he would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever the fork brought out belonged to the priest. All the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices were treated like this. ¹⁵ In addition, even before the fat was taken off and burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the one offering the sacrifice, "Give me some meat for the priest to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat." ¹⁶ If the person answered, "Let us do what is right and burn the fat first; then take what you want," the priest's servant would say, "No! Give it to me now! If you don't, I will have to take it by force!" ¹⁷ This sin of the sons of Eli was extremely serious in the Lord 's sight, because they treated the offerings to the Lord with such disrespect. ¹⁸ In the meantime the boy Samuel continued to serve the Lord , wearing a sacred linen apron. ¹⁹ Each year his mother would make a little robe and take it to him when she accompanied her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. ²⁰ Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say to Elkanah, "May the Lord give you other children by this woman to take the place of the one you dedicated to him." After that they would go back 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
And so the whole universe was completed.

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

Genesis 2:3
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Genesis 2:4
And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,

Genesis 2:6
but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.

Genesis 2:9
He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.

Genesis 2:10
A stream flowed in Eden and watered the garden; beyond Eden it divided into four rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:12
(Pure gold is found there and also rare perfume and precious stones.)

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.