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1 Samuel 2:23 Explained in Context

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Verse 23. And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

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Role in This Section

Preserves Eli's question about his sons' evil dealings as reported by the people.

Read It With

  • 1 Samuel 2:22–2:26

Read 1 Samuel 2:23 as one step in 1 Samuel 2:22–2:26: it preserves Eli's question about his sons' evil dealings as reported by the people. The complete scene shows that Eli hears reports that his sons exploit Israel and lie with women serving at the sanctuary, rebukes them, but they do not listen; Samuel continues to grow in favor.

Why It Needs Context

Preserves Eli's question about his sons' evil dealings as reported by the people. Its force depends on the full movement and outcome of 1 Samuel 2:22–2:26; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.

Continue in Context

The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.

Read 1 Samuel 2:22–2:26 — Eli rebukes but does not restrain his sons
Sources used for this context pointer

How certain is this explanation? strong

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.

Exact location: 1 Samuel 2:22–2:26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 2:22–2:26; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23

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