Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:24

24 Nay, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, ye make the LORD's people to transgress .

Words too mild for such Diabolical Actions.

Either 1. The Women that by your instigation were drawn to folly. Or, 2. others who are easily brought to follow your pernicious example. Or, 3. Other persons of Pious and honest Minds, whom therefore he calls the Lords people by way of distinction from the children of Belial, who were so highly offended with the great dishonour done to God, and to his Worship, and with the horrible Wickedness of the Priests, that upon that occasion, they were hurried into the other Extreme, and lived in the neglect and contempt of their own indispensable duty of offering Sacrifices, because they came through the Priests hands.

Marginal references: Or, to cry [illegible: 1 word]