Verse 25
25. If one man sin against another Better and literally, if man sins against man.
The judge shall judge him Hebrew, God will judge him; that is, by the properly constituted authorities, the priests, Levites, and judges. See Deuteronomy 17:8-13. Eli himself was such a judge, and intimates to his sons that in sins of man against man he might hear testimony and decide, and in rendering his judgment be partial and kind to the offender; but in sins against Jehovah he could not render judgment, but the offended Majesty of heaven would take the judgment into his own hands.
If a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him This question was not put for the purpose of eliciting a direct answer, but to lead these wicked sons to reflection. Yet even such solemn appeals failed.
Because the Lord would slay them חפצ להמיתם , was inclined to kill them. He had already given them over to judicial blindness. They had made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and therefore God had resolved to destroy them.
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