1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

Ver. 13. For I have told him.] And he shall find that I told him so not in terrorem, only to frighten him.

For the iniquity which he knoweth.] Both by that prophet, 1Sa 2:29 and by that domestical chaplain, his conscience.

Because his sons made themselves vile.] Heb., Contemned or despised themselves - viz., by despising their ways, not ordering them aright Pro 19:16 - and so have rendered themselves contemptible, or accursed, and the service of God also, by their maladministration: for who will taste of the fruit that first disliketh the tree?

And he restrained them not.] No, not so much as by frowning upon them - so the word signifieth - by casting a wry look toward them. A Christian should carry a severe rebuke in his countenance at least, as God doth. Psa 80:16