Many ask something like, “Why do the good die young and the evil seem to live forever?” Yeshua answered two questions about whether sin brought on two tragedies at that time by saying those weren’t punishment for sin, but all need to take notice that a big disaster for Israel — Rome’s destruction of Yerushalayim — was coming and need turn back to God.
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/081004%201st%20Samuel%203%20-%20call%20of%20Samuel%20and%20fall%20of%20Eli.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:33 — )Subscribe: RSSIn 1st Samuel 3, the boy Samuel hears God’s voice. It’s a foretelling of God’s judgment on high priest Eli’s family line as priests because of Eli’s leniency with his sons’ behavior that had turned people against God.