Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to transgress.
New American Standard Bible
No, my sons; for the report is not good
King James Version
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.
Holman Bible
No, my sons, the report I hear from the Lord’s people is not good.
International Standard Version
No, my sons, I'm not hearing good news being circulated by the LORD's people.
A Conservative Version
No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.
American Standard Version
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.
Amplified
No, my sons; for the report that I keep hearing from the passers-by among the Lord’s people is not good.
Bible in Basic English
No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.
Darby Translation
No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.
Julia Smith Translation
Nay, sons, for not a good report which I heard: causing the people of Jehovah to pass by.
Lexham Expanded Bible
No, my sons, the report [is] not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.
Modern King James verseion
No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. You make Jehovah's people to transgress.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Oh, nay my sons: For it is no good report that I hear how that ye make the LORD's people to trespass.
NET Bible
This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord's people is not good.
New Heart English Bible
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people disobey.
The Emphasized Bible
Nay, my sons! for it is no good report that I do hear: leading into transgression the people of Yahweh.
Webster
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 disobey.
Youngs Literal Translation
Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --
Themes
Children » Wicked » Eli's sons
Eli » Indulgent to his corrupt sons
Judge » Corrupt, instances of » Eli's sons
Obduracy (hardness) » Instances of » Sons of eli
Offence » Saints should » Reprove those who cause
priests » Were sometimes » Profane and wicked
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 2:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eli Rebukes His Evil Sons
23 And he said unto them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all these people. 24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to transgress. 25 If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to slay them.
Cross References
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
1 Samuel 2:17
Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
1 Kings 13:18-21
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as you are; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
1 Kings 15:30
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
Malachi 2:8
But you have departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 18:7
Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
Acts 6:3
Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
2 Corinthians 6:8
By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
1 Timothy 3:7
Moreover he must have a good report of them who are outside; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.
3 John 1:12
Demetrius has good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear witness; and you know that our witness is true.
Revelation 2:20
Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.