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A Rebuke Without Teeth
Commentators unanimously agree that Eli's verbal rebuke was far too mild and gentle. Charles Spurgeon notes that while gentleness is a virtue, there are times when sternness and severity are required, especially when God's honor is at stake. Eli's failure was not in rebuking, but in the weakness of his rebuke.
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1 Samuel
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Samuel 2:11–36
19th Century
Bishop
The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary—The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli—The Doom of the House of Ithamar.
Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Samuel 2:22–25
19th Century
Preacher
Now Eli was very old, and heard what his sons did to all Israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of…
John Gill
On 1 Samuel 2:23
17th Century
Pastor
And he said to them, why do you such things ?
&c.] As to impose upon the people that bring their offerings, by takin…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Samuel 2:11–26
17th Century
Minister
Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did t…