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Eli's treatment of the sins of his sons. - 1Sa 2:22. The aged Eli reproved his sons with solemn warnings on account of their sins; but without his warnings being listened to. From the reproof itself we learn, that beside the sin noticed in 1Sa 2:12-17, they also committed the crime of lying with the women who served at the tabernacle (see at Exo 38:8), and thus profaned the sanctuary with whoredom. But Eli, with the infirmities of his old age, did nothing further to prevent these abominations than to say to his sons, “Why do ye according to the sayings which I hear, sayings about you which are evil, of this whole people.” רָעִים אֶת־דִּבְרֵיכֶם is inserted to make the meaning clearer, and כָּל־ה מֵאֵת is dependent upon שֹׁמֵעַ. “This whole people” signifies all the people that came to Shiloh, and heard and saw the wicked doings there.