Committed to Personal Destruction

With this God ups the ante as He shows the progressively bad consequences of Eli's sin. It is one thing to have lost privileges in the Kingdom of God, and it is still another to know that our rebellion has hurt our children. But here we read that Eli's spiritual lethargy also resulted in the compromise of God's worship — or as the text reads, “my habitation ,” referencing the temple and its worship in Shiloh.

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