| The occasion was
this: Eli, the high priest, had two sons, Hophni and
Phineas. These sons of Eli were guilty of injustice
towards men, and of impiety towards God, and abstained
from no sort of wickedness. Some of their gifts they
carried off, as belonging to the honorable employment
they had; others of them they took away by violence. They
also were guilty of impurity with the women that came to
worship God at the tabernacle, obliging some to submit to
their lust by force, and enticing others by bribes; nay,
the whole course of their lives was no better than
tyranny. |