World English Bible
"No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey."
— 1 Samuel 2:24, World English Bible
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah’s people to transgress. ”
“No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.”
“Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.”
“No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.”
“Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.”
Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.
If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?" Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
A man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?