Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 2:24
A church father on this verse
“Because their father [Eli] did not chastise them with enough severity … he moved the forbearance of God to wrath so great that foreign peoples rose up against them and killed those sons of his in war in one day. His entire nation, furthermore, was vanquished, and a considerable number of his people fell. Now, this hap…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24Nay 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.
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In context
22And Eli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.
23And he said to them, Why do ye according to this thing, which I hear from the mouth of all the people of the Lord?
— 1 Samuel 2:24 —
25If a man should at all sin against another, then shall they pray for him to the Lord; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would by all means destroy them.
26And the child Samuel advanced, and was in favor with God and with men.