His sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as officiating priests but “were guilty of injustice towards men, and of impiety towards God, and abstained from no sort of wickedness, ” says historian Josephus.
इस्राएल के महायाजक एली के किस्से में भी परमेश्‍वर के सामने व्यक्‍ति की व्यक्‍तिगत जवाबदेही सचित्रित होती है ।