The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
      (2.) They debauched the women that came to worship at the door of the tabernacle, 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Samuel 2:22. They had wives of their own, but were like fed horses,Jeremiah 5:8. To have gone to the harlots' houses, the common prostitutes, would have been abominable wickedness, but to use the interest which as priests they had in those women that had devout dispositions and were religiously inclined, and to bring them to commit their wickedness, was such horrid impiety as one can scarcely think it possible that men who called themselves priests should ever be guilty of. Be astonished, O heavens! at this, and tremble, O earth! No words can sufficiently express the villany of such practices as these.