1 Samuel 2:25 DBY

²³  And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.

²⁴  No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.

²⁵  If one man sin against another, God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.

²⁶  And the boy Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah and also with men.

²⁷  And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Did I plainly reveal myself to the house of thy father when they were in Egypt, in Pharaoh's house,