Parallel Verses
Webster
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye 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.
King James 2000
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to transgress.
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.
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
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 2:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eli Rebukes His Evil Sons
23 And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. 24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress. 25 If one man shall sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man shall sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
Cross References
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
1 Samuel 2:17
Wherefore 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 to all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Kings 13:18-21
He said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to 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 ye have departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 18:7
Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!
Acts 6:3
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out 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 without; 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 had quite escaped from them who live in error.
3 John 1:12
Demetrius hath good report by all men, and by the truth itself: and we also bear testimony; and ye know that our testimony is true.
Revelation 2:20
Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.