1 Samuel 2:24

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.

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 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.

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 went Elkanah to Ramah, unto his own house, - but, the boy, remained ministering unto Yahweh, before Eli the priest. ¹² Now, the sons of Eli, were abandoned men, - they knew not Yahweh. ¹³ And, the custom of the priests with the people, was - when any man offered a sacrifice, then would come the priests young man, as the flesh was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand; ¹⁴ and would strike it into the boiler, or into the trough, or into the kettle, or into the pot, all that the fork would bring up, the priest took for himself. Thus and thus, used they to do unto all Israel, who came thither, in Shiloh. ¹⁵ Also, before any could make perfume with the fat, the priests young man would come in and say to the person who was sacrificing, Come! give flesh for the priest's roastings, - for he will not take of thee boiled flesh - only raw. ¹⁶ And, if the man said to him, Let them at least, make incense, at once with the fat, then take thou as much as thy soul craveth, Then said he to him, But, at once, shalt thou give it; or else, I will take it by force. ¹⁷ And so it was, that, the sin of the young men, was exceeding great, before Yahweh, - for men scorned the offerings of Yahweh. ¹⁸ But, as for Samuel, he was ministering before Yahweh, - a boy girded with an ephod of linen. ¹⁹ Also, a little robe, used his mother to make for him, and bring it up to him, from year to year, - when she came up with her husband, to offer the sacrifice of the year. ²⁰ And Eli used to bless Elkanah and his wife, and to say - Yahweh give thee seed of this woman, instead of the loan that hath been lent unto Yahweh. So they went their way to his own place.

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
Thus were finished the heavens and the earth and all their host.

Genesis 2:2
Thus God finished, on the seventh day his work which he had made, and rested, on the seventh day, from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, - because therein, rested he from all his work which God, by creating, had made.

Genesis 2:4
These are the geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.

Genesis 2:6
but, a vapour, went up from the earth, - and watered all the face of the ground.

Genesis 2:7
So then Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life - and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
Now, a river, was coming forth out of Eden, to water the garden, - and, from thence, it parted, and became four heads,

Genesis 2:11
The name of the one, is Pishon, - the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Havilah, where is gold;

Genesis 2:12
moreover the gold of that and, is good, - there, is the bdellium, and the beryl stone,

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.