And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.
And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
Why do ye such things! - Eli appears to have been a fondly affectionate, easy father, who wished his sons to do well, but did not bring them under proper discipline, and did not use his authority to restrain them. As judge, he had power to cast them immediately out of the vineyard, as wicked and unprofitable servants; this he did not, and his and their ruin was the consequence.
2:23 He said, … — Eli's sin was not only that he reproved them too gently, but that he contented himself with a verbal rebuke, and did not restrain them, and inflict those punishments upon them which such high crimes deserved by God's law, and which he as judge and high-priest ought to have done, without respect of persons.