Took bribes, and perverted judgment.—This sin, at all times a fatally common one in the East, was especially denounced in…

And his sons walked not in his ways
The meaning of which is not that they did not go the circuit he did, which is to…

It does not appear that Samuel's sons were so profane and vicious as Eli's sons; but they were corrupt judges, they turned aside after lucre. Samue…