1st Samuel Chapter 8 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV 1stSamuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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BBE 1stSamuel 8:3

And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.
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DARBY 1stSamuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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KJV 1stSamuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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WBT 1stSamuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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WEB 1stSamuel 8:3

His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
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YLT 1stSamuel 8:3

and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - His sons...took bribes. This sin was expressly forbidden in Exodus 23:6, 8; Deuteronomy 16:19, and it marks the high spirit of the nation that it was so indignant at justice being thus perverted. They walked not in his way (singular - so the written text); for Samuel's own administration of justice had been most upright (1 Samuel 12:4), nor is it laid to his charge that he connived at the misconduct of his sons. On the contrary, after remonstrance indeed, not for his sons' sake, but for the honour of the theocracy, and that the people might be on their guard against a despotic exercise of the power with which they were about to intrust a single man, he superseded not them only, but also himself. His conduct in this trying conjuncture was most admirable, and few commentators have done justice to the man, who, possessed of what was virtually kingly power, yet gave it over for the nation's good into the hands of another.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Took bribes, and perverted judgment.--This sin, at all times a fatally common one in the East, was especially denounced in the Law. (See Exodus 23:6-8; Deuteronomy 16:19.) It is strange that the same ills that ruined Eli's house, owing to the evil conduct of his children, now threatened Samuel. The prophet-judge, however, acted differently to the high priestly judge. The sons of Samuel were evidently, through their father's action in procuring the election of Saul, quickly deposed from their authority. The punishment seems to have been successful in correcting the corrupt tendencies of these men, for we hear in after days of the high position occupied at the court of David by the distinguished descendants of the noble and disinterested prophet. (See the notices in 1Chronicles 6:33; 1Chronicles 25:4-5, respecting Heman, the grandson of Samuel, the king's seer, who was chief of the choir of the Psalmist-king in the house of God.)