Gary Powers explains in this video that Eli wrongly treated his sons, by failing to take action when they acted in sinful ways. Why were they placed in a priestly office? They should never have been in that position at all. He should have removed them from that office. He should have continually been pointing them to God instead of allowing them to act in the way that they did.

Hebrews 12:11 (NKJV) - "Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it."

What Eli did with his sons and the fact that he warned them but he didn't take action. And I think one of the things that Eli did wrong is in the foundation. It says that his sons, they knew not the Lord. And so why were they in a priestly office? They should have never been placed in that office in the first place.

And I think maybe nepotism, you know, He put them in and they shouldn't have been in that office. He should have had the discernment to not put them in that office. Now they're older sons and yes, he can correct them. He can give advice, but they're under their own jurisdiction. He's got a jurisdiction as far as in the office and he should have removed them as a priest.

He should have removed them and taken them out of that office. And as a father, offered advice to say, sons, you need to stop doing this. He should have continually been pointing them to Jehovah.