1 Samuel Chapter Two

Be easier. Hey, as we're going through this over the next 25 weeks, 31 weeks, however long it takes us, if there's something that I'm saying in the middle, you feel free to stop me. So you can say, Hey, man, I need you to clarify something.

Or if you disagree or don't agree, just let me know before we get have get to the end. And we've got two and a half minutes for questions and comments. It doesn't give you all enough time to tell me I'm wrong.

Reading and Overview of 1 Samuel 2

Okay. All right. First Samuel chapter two, we're gonna read the chapter might try to get through the chapter today. There's there's four sections in this and we'll, we'll try to get through it. Because there may be some questions about some of the Eli and his family and all that.

All right, let's read. Then Hannah prayed and said, my heart exalts in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord, my mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. There is no one holy like the Lord.

Indeed, there is no one beside you. Nor is there any rock like our God boasts no more so very proudly and do not let arrogant come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge. And with him actions are weighed the bows of the mighty are shattered, the feeble gird on strength, those who are full hire themselves out for bread.

But those who were hungry cease to hunger, even the baron gives birth to seven, but she who has many children will languish. The Lord kills and makes alive he brings down to shield and he raises up the Lord makes poor and rich he brings low and he also exalts he raises the poor from the dust.

He lists the needy from the ashy to make them sit upon the nobles and to inherit the seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he set the world on them. He keeps the feet of his godly ones but the wicked ones are silenced in darkness for not by might shall a man prevail.

Those who contend with the Lord they will be shattered against them will he thunder in the heavens the Lord will judge the ends of the earth and he will give strength to his king and will exalt the horn of his anointed.

Then Elkanah went to his home in Rama but the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest. Now the sons of Eli were worthless men they did not know the Lord and the custom of the priest with the people.

And when any man would offer would be offering a sacrifice the priest servant would come while the meat was boiling and with a three pronged fork in his hand then he would thrust it into the pan or the kettle or the cauldron or the pot and all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself.

Thus they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also before they burned the fat the priest servant would come and he would say to the man who was sacrificing give the priest meat for roasting as he as he will not take that which is boiled meat from you but he will only take raw.

If the man said to him they must surely burn the fat first then take as much as you desire. Then he would say no but you shall give it to me now. And if not I will take it by force. Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord for the men despised the offering of the Lord.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord as a boy wearing a linen ephod and his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him year by year when she would come with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord and they went to their own home and the Lord visited Hannah and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters and the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.

Now Eli was very old and he heard all that his sons were doing in all in all of Israel and how they would lay with women and served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. And he said to them Why do you do such things the evil things that I hear from all these people know my sons for the report is not good which I hear that the Lord's people are circulating.

If one man sins against another God will mediate for him. But if a man sins against the Lord who can intercede for him but they would not listen to the voice of their father for the Lord desired to put them to death.

Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men. Then a man of God came to Eli he said thus says the Lord do I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt and in bondage to Pharaoh's house.

Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest to go up to my altar to burn incense to carry an ephod before me. And did I not give them the house of your father's all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offerings which I have commanded in my dwelling and honor your sons above me by making yourselves fat with the choices of every offering of my people of Israel.

Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should not walk that should walk before me forever. But now the Lord declares this far be from me for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

Behold the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will be not an old man in his house and you will see the distress of my dwelling. And in spite of all the good that I do for Israel and an old man will not be in your house forever.

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from my altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieving and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life. This will be the sign of you which will come concerning your two sons hop nine Phineas on the same day both of them will die.

But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who would do according to what is in my heart and in my soul and I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before me. My anointed always everyone who is left in your house will come and they will bow down before him and for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread they will say please assign me to the priest office so that I may eat a piece of bread.

Hannah’s Prayer and the Reversal of the Proud

In reading that you you that sounds a lot choppy doesn't it? Yeah, there's you've got you've got four ideas going on to say for versus one through 11 is the prayer of Hannah Samuel's mother. And if you were to read that and you didn't know this was in Samuel, how many of us would think that was a psalm of David?

I would. And I almost read that this morning before you open your Bibles and see if anybody would say hey, who wrote that? Because it does sound like something David would have written. And then you have the praise of Hannah, one through 11, then 12 through 21, you have Eli's sons being rebuked, or the sins of Eli's being exposed.

I'm sorry, 12 through 17, then 18 through 21, you have now again, the the rise of Samuel, you see that Samuel's being put forth is going to be the the upcoming priest, then 22 through the end of the chapter, it has again, the rebuke of the evil and wicked son.

So you have this, this pattern of praise condemnation, praise condemnation. So when we look at Hannah's Thanksgiving, she's saying, because we don't have time to go through all of each one of these little stanzas, but she's praising the Lord for what her son, and she's praising the Lord for her son that she has the the opportunity to give him back to the Lord.

Do you not think or do you not know that Hannah knew that the two priests or the three priests that were working at the tabernacle were wicked? Yeah. Did she not know that Hathael and Phinehas were very evil men?

And did she not know that Eli was not doing his responsibility to rebuke his family? Sure. That's why she was thankful that God gave her a son that she was going to give back to the priesthood. So as we see some and some of this, she there's actually praise that the Ruby, which was her, her counterpart, the second wife, she actually says in verse, where is it at?

In verse five, where it says, those who were full of them. So those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry cease to hunger. And here it is, even the baron gives birth to seven, but she who has many children languishes.

That is in a reference to Ruby, or Penina, which was Hey, that this girl who had all of these children now languishes to the fact that I'm now giving birth to a child that's going to be given to the Lord and God's going to raise him up at the tabernacle.

Now if you back up just a little bit, it says that the baron gives birth to seven. We know that she did not give birth to seven. I think that is a reference in poetic terms to a birth of completion mean that God she completed the burst that God had given her.

If you disagree with me, we can talk about that another time, because it is in poetic form. And then as you look through verses six through eight, it's basically talking about the sovereignty of God, it says that the Lord kills and makes alive.

God is very intimately involved in the lives of people. He is very intimately involved in the deaths of people. And that's what he's saying. Hey, God's the one that raises up Hey, if a person becomes exalted, and becomes wealthy, who did that?

If a person becomes poor and debased, who did that? God did it. And that's what he says in verse seven. And then he says he raises the poor from the dust, basically just repeating what he has already said, or she's repeating, but what the Lord has already done, he raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy out of the ash heap.

And he says he to make them sit in noble places and inherit the seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he set the world on them, showing the absolute sovereign king is the creator of all things.

And then she finishes her prayer. And then Elkanah and her go home. Now, it's often thought of did Hannah pray this public prayer before the Lord at the tabernacle? And I'll be honest with you, we don't know.

We don't know if this was a public prayer from her. Was this something on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit then recollected by whoever the writer was? I don't think that she would have stood up publicly in the tabernacle and done that.

It's possible, but we really don't know. So she she leaves he Samuel there with Eli, then we get to verse 12. Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. Does anybody say sons of Belial there? Belial? Does anybody remember last week in my sermon actually talked a little bit about that?

What's that? Yeah, worthless. They it can either mean worthless, but Belial actually as it developed over the Hebrew synonym became of devil. So if you look and I think it's in second Corinthians five or seven somewhere in that area.

He says can a man be joined with God in Belial and in some translations say devil that was used as a synonym because Belial was worthless evil man. So it says that the sons of Eli were worthless, they did not know the Lord.

And then here we get to what the cut says in verse 13, and the custom of the priest with the people that when a man would offer a sacrifice and the priest servant would come while the meat was boiling with a three prong fork in his hand, he would thrust it into the the kettle, the pan, the cauldron or the pot, fork, whatever that fork brought up the priest would take for himself.

Okay. Leviticus chapter three through seven deal with sacrifices and how they were to be handled at the tabernacle and eventually be the temple. It says very clearly, all the fact to every sacrifice belong to the Lord.

So when these men would come up after he wanted it, but we'll get to this point, they were supposed to drop it into the cauldron would boil it up, then they would reach in and get what was left they were boiling off the fat because the fat was supposed to be the choicest of the meat and was supposed to be given to the Lord.

Well, what they were doing is when they says here, thus they did in Shiloh, then when you get to verse 15, it says, also before the fat was burned, the priest would come, he would then say to the man who was sacrificing, give the priest the meat for the roasting.

As he will not take it boiled meat from you. He wants it raw. And if the man did not take it, he basically says he would strong on the man of what the offering was. So here it is, they dropped it in the cauldron, they stick in there before the stuff was burned off, they took that to then there would be times when they would come and they would say, Hey, we want that meat before it's even burned at all.

And then they would take it if they wouldn't give it to them, they would strongarm it. So one, they were stealing, they were extorting God's people, and they were not doing the ministry of God's people.

I mean, doing the ministry for God's people, they were doing it for their own gain. And we talked more about it in the in this chapter here, they were fattening himself up making themselves to fill their own belly.

So this shows us what type of men hopfire and Phineas were. They were not godly men. A number, well, I would say, probably been 12 or 13 years ago, there was a man that said the hopfire hop nine Phineas were conducting the their priestly duties in an unregenerate manner.

Now, this could open up a discussion and I'm fine with that. They were not regenerate. Okay, understand we talked about someone being regenerated by the Holy Spirit being enlightened by the Holy Spirit per se.

That is a New Testament idea of how the Holy Spirit worked. So we're what a better way of saying it were these men converted and circumcised of heart? No, they were not. So if somebody if you hear someone say, hey, these were unregenerate priest, the regeneration is a New Testament idea, not an old covenant idea.

The promise of the New Covenant, even Ezekiel 3738 was that when you have this, the value dry bones, they get sinews and flesh put all of it would happen. God then breathes on those bones with all of its flesh and he breathes on it the Holy Spirit giving them life.

That's the promise of regeneration. So were these men unregenerate under a New Testament idea? Yes. Okay, yes, if that's how you want to see it, but ultimately, how it's all spoken through the Old Testament is these men were uncircumcised of heart.

They did not care about God. They did not care about the things of God. They cared about filling their own belly and fulfilling the sexual desires of their own self. Yes, sir. Yes. Yeah, very clear. Very clear.

I see you. I see you squinting. You good? You got a question? You took your glasses off on me. I'm in trouble. Okay. All right. We good. Okay. And then so they were extorting God's people out of the meat that was supposed to be given to the Lord.

Then we get to verse 16. If the man said to him, they must surely burn the fat. Fat first and he would take it by force or 17. Thus the sins of the young men were very great before the Lord for the men despised the offering of the Lord.

Now, hot fire and Phineas were such dirt bags. They didn't even do this themselves. You may go back and see what they did. They actually sent a servant to go do their dirty work. Then that makes I am not clearly sure if this is when it says that the sign this thus the sin of the young man was very great before the Lord and the men despised the offering of the Lord.

I am not very completely sure if he is speaking of as the men would come and give the offering despising it or if it would have been the priest servants that were going despising I'm not sure. Maybe our English teacher could.

It's tough, isn't it? Because of the because of the way the the good. Yeah, and it's difficult because you know, you're when you're using pronouns and nouns and you're trying to go back to see which one it's pointing to.

It just says that the young man was very great that the sin of the young man was very great before the Lord for the men despised the Lord. So whoever it was, whether it was the the servants that were going doing the the dirty work of half nine Phineas and they begin to despise the the the offering of the Lord or whether it was the men coming to their tabernacle going man I'm supposed to be given this to the Lord and I'm fixing to give this stuff of my of my choices stuff I'm supposed to give I'm going to give it to them and then God's not going to accept the sacrifice because if you go back and you read into Levitical law, it wasn't done as a certain way.

No matter who offered it, it wasn't it wasn't accepted by God. So here it is these men if it's the worshiper going to offer this and then going I've done all of what God has required of me and the dirtbag and the funny clothes is fixing to take that which I've tried to offer in good spirits is fixing to be taken from me.

So that could be the understanding as well. Then we get to verse 18. This will be Samuel before the Lord as he is a young boy. Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord as a boy wearing a linen ephod what was the linen ephod even we go back to the time of the judges what was the ephod a representative priest priest remember what Mike it did when he did as I what did he do he made his own ephod and he said I'll make my own priest and I'll I'll offer up stuff and for this but I'll have a guy wearing ephod therefore it'll look correct.

Well who wore the main ephod into the tabernacle with all the jewels and all that who said the high priest. Yeah, with all the jewels and everything. It says in his in verse 19, and his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him year after year and she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

Once again, we see the godly parents doing what was required of them under the mosaic legislation, which was every year, they would come to the tabernacle and make those yearly sacrifices. And I should they would come if you remember last week, I said that once she dropped him off, she didn't see him anymore.

But once a year, she would make him a little robe. Interesting that she makes him a little robe like he never grew. It's all is it always little year after year, she bring him a little robe. And then verse 20, then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord and they went home and went their own way.

What an act of honor from Eli, an act of blessing that he saw what Elkanah and Hannah had done, and thought saw that as very an honorable thing. And he, he prays that God would open her womb with more children and bless her for the one that she gave away.

And I think that's an honorable thing. And then verse 21, the Lord visited Hannah, she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. So here it is, the Lord opened her womb. She he blesses her with more children, just as Eli had prayed and just as she had to, and the boy Samuel grew before the Lord.

So we have Samuel being recognized as a young godly boy, one that's being trained up in the nurture and admonition of Yahweh. And then verse 22, we get back to dirt bags. Now, Eli was very old, and he had heard all that his sons were doing to to all of Israel and how they lay with women who served at the doorway of the 10th meeting.

So what so so far, what have we seen hot fine Phineas do? Steal? Good. Sure, they corrupted the corrupted the office and they corrupted the actual sacrifice. Okay. Yeah, the sacrifice itself. Yep. Yeah.

Yep. They're, they're, they're, they're worshiping themselves rather than God. They're blaspheming God. Good. You were fixing to say something? Yeah, I mean, they're, that's exactly what they are. Yeah.

Yeah. And that what they're doing is they care about nothing but themselves and they're using the office of the priesthood to fill their own bellies to fill their own pockets. Hey, and if you see what they do, look at the vast majority of false teachers.

If you even go to first, it's either first or second, Peter, he says they're trained in wantonness practices and lasciviousness, they feed on filling the desires of the flesh, they, they feed on the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life, they want those very things more than they want God.

And this is exactly what Eli's sons are doing. And they they're doing it with no shame. I mean, look where it says they're doing. They're laying with women and they talk about laying down looking at the stars here.

They're having sex with these women at the opening of the tabernacle of meeting. It's interesting that Phineas is one of the names and if anybody remembers back what happened in numbers, you remember Phineas was one of not this one, but Phineas was the one that when a man was having sex with one of the Midianite women outside or in front of the tabernacle of meeting, what did he come and do?

He shoved a spear right through him through her and pinned him to the ground. So what they're doing is just open blatant rebellion before the Lord, God should have struck these men dead. But does anybody see what God why God is being long suffering and patient at this point?

Exactly what he's doing. There's no priest. There's no priest, there's no man to stand before the Lord that is above reproach. If if Eli's wiped out for his lack of rebuking his sons, and he wipes his sons out, who's going to take care of the sacrifice for the Lord, there's no one raised up.

So when the providence of God and in his patience, he's being patient with what they're doing. Okay, it's not saying that God's approving of what they're doing, but he's being patient. And we could even go to the to the New Testament.

Think about Caiaphas, how many times he went into the Holy of Holies, when he in his mind, he had already prepared to put to death the Son of God, we know at least three years. And what God should have struck him dead, shouldn't he?

But what did God do out of respect for the office per se, honor the office, let those men go in there year after year and perform those duties, because God says, Okay, although the office has been corrupt, they do what I require of them, I'm going to make concessions for my people.

It all points to a greater king priest, though, one that won't be a dirtbag, one that won't offer up sacrifices that are that are not acceptable, but will offer himself up as a sacrifice, and fulfilling all of those sacrifices from before.

Eli’s Rebuke and the Need for a Faithful Priest

So let's go to verse 23. And he said to them, Why do you do such evil things that I hear from all these people? No, my sons, for the report is not good, which I hear the Lord's people circulating. If one man sins against another, God can mediate for him.

I sent against Mike, God, we can mediate that God can work that out between me and him. But he's saying if a man sins against God, is there a mediator? Ultimately, there's not until Christ comes, who at this point, there would be trusting in a sinful man to intercede for them.

That should have been something in the mind of the people and Hebrews touches on this, that every time they went to the tabernacle or to the temple, they're taking their sacrifice and giving it to another sinful man, their sinners, giving a sinner, a sacrifice to intercede for them that should have been in their mind going, man, there's something fundamentally wrong with this.

Someone who had to offer a sacrifice for themselves before they could offer the others. Yeah. And the fact that he may be worse than you. He obviously hopped on Phineas were worse than they were. Good.

Like Catholic confession.

Could be. Yeah. When they go in and.

Yeah, they're, you're scraping yourself clean.

Confessing your sins to another sinful man.

Yeah, I don't have a in and of itself. This is another subject for another time. But just in love itself. I don't have a problem with someone confessing sins one to another because we are commanded to do that confess your sins one to another.

But I'm not go if you had a funny collar on. I'm not coming to you thinking that you can absolve me of my sin. But I don't have a problem with someone, the actual confession to one another and.

Understand that those people confessing their sins that man.

Are expecting him to absolve them of their sins. Yeah, go do these funny tricks. And then yeah, that's right. So we we know that there's a man cannot intercede for God can intercede for man to man, there's nobody that can intercede when a man sins against God.

And what has these these men done? Do they have offended God, they've offended every bit of his law. It says, but they would not listen to his voice for the Lord desired to put them to death. Now. It doesn't say that the Lord desired to put them to death because they would listen to their father does it?

I'd be reading it backwards. It says that they wouldn't listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death. There's the reason the Lord had already planned on putting them to death.

Therefore, they're just carrying out their depravity by being disobedient to their father, I would imagine these, these young men were never submissive to their father, they're just doing whatever they wanted to do.

And then in verse 26, it says now, the boy Samuel was growing in stature, and in favor both with the Lord and with men. And once again, here it is Samuel, he brings us back to Oh, man, look at this terrible time.

Look at dirtbag one dirtbag to look at what they're doing. And then we get that glimmer of hope. Hey, here it is Samuel, he's growing in stature and favor. And he's doing it not only before the Lord, but the people are seeing that Samuel is a godly man.

And verse 27. And where this guy comes from, do we know his name? We don't know anything about this guy, but he comes out of nowhere. It says then a man of God came to Eli and he said thus says the Lord, did I not indeed reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh?

And what would be the answer? Yes. Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to do my altar and to burn the incense and to carry the ephod before me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the sons of Israel?

Yes. Why do you kick against my sacrifice and at my offering which I've commanded you in my dwelling and honor your sons above me that so the the sin ultimately of Eli is doing what is idolatry. He's honoring his sons more than he's honoring God.

It clearly says that he would have rather his sons looked good, smell good and ate good than to rebuke them and remove them from the positions that they were in and him carry out those duties. He didn't want to do that.

He wanted to just let his sins, his sons do their things. Man, they could be put to death for breaking the law of God. Yeah, they could have been I mean, they were committing sexual immorality. And they obviously knew that because it was right there at the temple.

What happened to fornicators and adulterers? They took them outside the camp. And you start hitting them with rocks. That's what should have happened to them. I can't imagine how to do that to your kid.

It's crazy. And the mosaic legislation if your kid was a bad kid, and was a drunkard, so it gives you kind of a time frame. We're talking about a three year old here. All right, that they were to take their kids outside the camp and stone them.

That's tough. Where was that? I'm lost. Why do you kick against my sacrifice? Here we are. Verse 30. Therefore, the Lord God of Israel declares I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.

But now the Lord declares this far it be from me. For those who honor me I will honor and those who decides me I will lightly esteem and behold, the days are coming. And I will break your strength and the strength of your father's house so that there will not be an old man in your house, you will see the distress of my dwelling and in spite of all the good that I do for Israel, and an old man will not be in your house forever.

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from the altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul will grieve and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life. Understand what he's he's speaking of hot fire and Phineas.

They're they're not gonna they're they're in the prime of their life. They're young there. Remember they were serving they were probably in their 30s serving in the in a tabernacle. He says I'm fixing to wipe him out.

And there's not going to be anybody left to take their their place and stars their lineage. This will be the sign to you which will come concerning both your sons hot fire and Phineas on the same day both of them will die.

But I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who will do according to all that my heart and my soul and I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always who's he speaking of in its immediate context?

Who's that talking about? I'm sorry, Samuel, Samuel, he says I'm gonna raise up someone, hey, they're fixing to be dead. I'm gonna raise up for myself a faithful priest that faithful priest is fixing to be Samuel.

He's going to raise him up to take under in its immediate context. Now, we can do that trajectory of what's this go who's going to be the the great ultimate faithful priest, it'll be Christ, he will be the one that will walk before God blameless, he will be the one that will do all that God requires of him.

And he says I will build him an enduring house and he will walk before my anointed always everyone who is left in your house will come down and will bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and say please assign me to one of the priest office so that I may eat a piece of bread.

So here it is. He's already made it very clear hot fine finesse are going to remove from their position. And the day that that happens, it's going to be Samuels going to step right in and fill that so that there is no void what would look to be a void.

There's not Samuels being prepared to take care of that. Imagine what Eli is doing, as he is showing him how to carry out, you know, lighting of the incense how to to to slaughter the animal to cut out its entrails, its liver, if you go back and read Leviticus, man, there was very intricate ways in which they had to do it teach him as a young boy of how he needs to, to skin the animals so they can keep the hide, which would go to the Levitical priest, he is actually learning at a as a young boy to do all the things that grown 30 year old men were doing.

And what a great what a great thing for that young boy to learn and to see, and to see the wickedness which he would replace. We forget that you don't think he saw the wickedness. Yes, ma 'am. Could could have been I think there could have been a community of that.

But by and large, it was it was Eli, because it's the most likely that would be that would be the logical conclusion. Because if it was the high priest, the next if say Eli died, the oldest hot fire finish, whatever, we don't know one of them would go step in his place, then when he died, the next one would come in.

So I'll logically Yes, he would. Yeah. I would imagine he trained his own son just because of their probably in their 30s. At this point. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yes. I mean, yeah. I'm in the sovereign. Sure, they're responsible for their actions.

They should have followed done. Correct. Yeah, correct. But they didn't. Because no, they did whatever they did. They did willfully and knowing that what they were doing was wrong. And they did not care.

Because they cared more about sexual morality, filling their bellies, and taking the priesthood and making themselves wealthy, which is what all the false prophets do. I mean, false prophets, false teachers, all that.

What's that? No, they must have been doing something that could have been. Yeah, yeah, there's no way they could have ate all that. Yes, sir. Yeah. But a long term pattern of it. I. Yeah, I know you're not making light of it.

But yeah, well, the only thing I know what you're saying. No, we don't. But we know this. He was bad in the sense that he did not rebuke his son for what they were doing, just because he comes to them and says, Hey, I've heard what's been circulating about what's going on.

Hey, what you're doing is really, you know, it's kind of bad. He should have removed them from their position. He even though he being elderly, and we'll see coming up, he's going to be probably in his 90s.

At this point, he should have removed him from their position and carried out those duties on his own, knowing that God was going to give him the strength to do that. But he did not. He did. He rather sit back.

And he you see, he's guilty to he's guilty of good of fattening himself up with the choices me too. Because he didn't, he didn't do what he was supposed to do. He said, All right, well, man, this is good.