Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 2:12

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 2:12 - 2:12

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 2:12 - 2:12

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1Sa 2:12-17. The sin of Eli’s sons.

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial - not only careless and irreligious, but men loose in their actions, and vicious and scandalous in their habits. Though professionally engaged in sacred duties, they were not only strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had thrown off its restraints, and even ran, as is sometimes done in similar cases by the sons of eminent ministers, to the opposite extreme of reckless and open profligacy.