1 Samuel 2:17

2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 3:14

3:14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, ‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”

1 Samuel 10:27

10:27 But some wicked men ²  said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it. ³ 

¹ tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew ms, a Qumran ms, and the LXX.

² tn Heb “sons of worthlessness” (see 2:12).

³ tc In place of the MT (“and it was like one being silent”) the LXX has “after about a month,” taking the expression with the first part of the following chapter rather than with 10:27. Some Hebrew support for this reading appears in the corrected hand of a Qumran ms of Samuel, which has here “about a month.” However, it seems best to stay with the MT here even though it is difficult.