1 Samuel 2:24

“Nay, my sons, etc.] 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…”

“no good: Act 6:3; Co2 6:8; Ti1 3:7; Jo3 1:12 ye make: Sa1 2:17, Sa1 2:22; Exo 32:21; Kg1 13:18-21, Kg1 15:30; Kg2 10:31; Mal 2:8; Mat 18:7; Pe2 2:18; Rev 2:20 transgress: or, cry out 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 2:25”

“בּני אל, "Not, my sons," i.e., do not such things, "for the report which I hear is not good; they make the people of Jehovah to transgress." מערים is written without the pronoun אתּם in an indefinite construction, like משׁלּחים in Sa1 6:3 (Maurer). Ewald's rendering as given by Thenius, "The report which I hear the people of God bring," is just as inadmissible as the one proposed by Bttcher, "The report which, as I hear, the people of God are spreading." The assertion made by Thenius, that העביר, without any further definition, cannot mean to cause to sin or transgress, is correct enough no doubt; but it does not prove that this meaning is inadmissible in the passage before us, since the…”