Teks -- 1 Samuel 2:24 (NET)

2:24 This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 1Sa 2:22-24 - the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle

This was an institution of holy women of a strictly ascetic order, who had relinquished worldly cares and devoted themselves to the Lord; an institution which continued down to the time of Christ (Luk 2:37). Eli was, on the whole, a good man, but lacking in the moral and religious training of his family. He erred on the side of parental indulgence; and though he reprimanded them (see on Deu 21:18), yet, from fear or indolence, he shrank from laying on them the restraints, or subjecting them to the discipline, their gross delinquencies called for. In his judicial capacity, he winked at their flagrant acts of maladministration and suffered them to make reckless encroachments on the constitution, by which the most serious injuries were inflicted both on the rights of the people and the laws of God.

TSK: 1Sa 2:24 - no good // ye make // transgress

no good : Act 6:3; 2Co 6:8; 1Ti 3:7; 3Jo 1:12

ye make : 1Sa 2:17, 1Sa 2:22; Exo 32:21; 1Ki 13:18-21, 1Ki 15:30; 2Ki 10:31; Mal 2:8; Mat 18:7; 2Pe 2:18; Rev 2:20

transgress : or, cry out

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Sa 2:24 - Ye make the Lord’ s people to transgress // Lord’ s people

Words too mild for such diabolical actions.

Ye make the Lord’ s people to transgress either,

1. The women that by your instigation were drawn to folly. Or,

2. Others who are easily brought to follow your pernicious example. Or,

3. Other persons of pious and honest minds, whom therefore he calls the

Lord’ s people by way of distinction from the children of Belial , who were so highly offended. with the great dishonour done to God and to his worship, and with the horrible wickedness of the priests, that upon that occasion they were hurried into the other extreme, and lived in the neglect and contempt of their own indispensable duty of offering sacrifices, because they came through the priests’ hands.

Gill: 1Sa 2:24 - Nay, my sons // for it is no good report that I hear // ye make the Lord's people to transgress

Nay, my sons,.... This seems to be too soft and smooth an appellation, too kind and endearing, considering the offence they were guilty of, and were now reproving for; rather they deserved to be called sons of Belial, the children of the devil, than sons of Eli, or brutes and shameless wretches, and such like hard names:

for it is no good report that I hear; a very bad one; far from being good, scarce anything worse could have been said of them; to rob persons of the flesh of their offerings, when there was a sufficient allowance made for them by law, and to be so impious as to require what was not their due, and even before the Lord had his; and to debauch the women that came to religious worship, and that in the sacred place of worship, they also being priests of the Lord, and married men; sins very shocking and sadly aggravated, and yet Eli treats them in this gentle manner:

ye make the Lord's people to transgress: by causing them to forbear to bring their sacrifices, being used in such an injurious and overbearing way; and by decoying the women into uncleanness, and by setting examples to others: or, "to cry out"; as in the margin of our Bibles, to exclaim against them for their exorbitant and lewd practices; so the Targum,

"the people of the Lord murmur because so ill used by them:''this clause may be read in connection with the former, "it is no good report that I hear, which ye cause to pass through the Lord's people"; ye occasion the people to speak ill of you everywhere, in the camp of Israel, throughout the whole nation; the report as it is bad, it is general, is in everyone's mouth; so Maimonides ^u interprets it; with which Jarchi and others agree ^w.