1 Samuel 2:24

New English Translation

²⁴No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating^[a] among the Lord’s people is not good.

1 Samuel 2:24 tn The verb is a Hiphil participle from עָבַר (ʿabar). The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (p. 309) understands it to mean “spread[ing] about” in this context. The term can also mean “causing to transgress.”tc The LXX reads “the report…is not good, so that the people do not serve God.”

New English Translation (NET)