1 Samuel 2:23

“And he said unto them, why do ye such things? etc.] As to impose upon the people that bring their offerings, by taking more than is due, and in a very indecent and imperious manner; and especially to defile the women when they came to worship: these were very scandalous sins, and deserved a more severe reprimand, and indeed a greater chastisement than by mere words; Eli should have rebuked them more sharply, and laid open the evil of their doings, and as a judge punished them for them: for I hear of your evil doings by all this people; the inhabitants of Shiloh, or who came thither to worship, who were continually making their complaints to Eli; which still shows his backwardness to reprove…”

“He said, &c. - Eli's sin was not only that he reproved them too gently, but that he contented himself with a verbal rebuke, and did not restrain them, and inflict those punishments upon them which such high crimes deserved by God's law, and which he as judge and high - priest ought to have done, without respect of persons. 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 2:25”

“Why: Kg1 1:6; Act 9:4, Act 14:15 I hear: etc. or, I hear evil words of you by all: Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3, Jer 8:12; Phi 3:19 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 2:24”