God told Samuel: “You must tell [Eli] that I am judging his house to time indefinite for the error that he has known, because his sons are calling down evil upon God, and he has not rebuked them. ”
לא קל היה לשמואל למסור את המסר הזה, ועלי הפציר בו שלא ייכחד ממנו דבר.