1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 15:23

15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

he has rejected you as king.”


tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

tn Or “from [being].”