1 Samuel 2:23
Good News Translation
So he said to them, "Why are you doing these things? Everybody tells me about the evil you are doing.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

New American Bible
So he said to them: “Why are you doing such things? I hear from everyone that your behavior is depraved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?

Why

1 Kings 1:6 Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom.

Acts 9:4 And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 14:15 And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them:

I hear, etc.

Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Jeremiah 8:12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

Context
Eli's Wicked Sons
22Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle: 23And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people?24Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:

1 Samuel 2:24
Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you make the people of the Lord to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:22
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