23. He said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?
24. No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord's people circulating.
25. If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death.
26. Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.
27. Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Did I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house?