Devine Scripture

1 Samuel 2:23

1 Samuel chapter 2 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

Context

v.22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

v.23This passage

v.24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah’s people to transgress.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 14:15

    and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

  • Jeremiah 8:12

    Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

  • 1 Kings 1:6

    And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

  • Philippians 3:19

    whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

  • Isaiah 3:9

    The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

  • Jeremiah 3:3

    Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.