1 Samuel 2:24

New Living Translation

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

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.

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 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 returned home to Ramah without Samuel. And the boy served the Lord by assisting Eli the priest. ¹² Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels who had no respect for the Lord ¹³ or for their duties as priests. Whenever anyone offered a sacrifice, Eli's sons would send over a servant with a three-pronged fork. While the meat of the sacrificed animal was still boiling, ¹⁴ the servant would stick the fork into the pot and demand that whatever it brought up be given to Eli's sons. All the Israelites who came to worship at Shiloh were treated this way. ¹⁵ Sometimes the servant would come even before the animal's fat had been burned on the altar. He would demand raw meat before it had been boiled so that it could be used for roasting. ¹⁶ The man offering the sacrifice might reply, "Take as much as you want, but the fat must be burned first." Then the servant would demand, "No, give it to me now, or I'll take it by force." ¹⁷ So the sin of these young men was very serious in the Lord 's sight, for they treated the Lord 's offerings with contempt. ¹⁸ But Samuel, though he was only a boy, served the Lord . He wore a linen garment like that of a priest. ¹⁹ Each year his mother made a small coat for him and brought it to him when she came with her husband for the sacrifice. ²⁰ Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the Lord give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the Lord ."

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 creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.

Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:6
Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.

Genesis 2:11
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone 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.