1 Samuel 2:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

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  • Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 13:18-21 : 18 Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him. 19 So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water. 20 But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back; 21 And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,
  • 1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
  • Matt 18:7 : 7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
  • Acts 6:3 : 3 Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.
  • 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

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