Judgement against Eli's family

²⁷ Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor’s family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh? ²⁸ I chose your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your ancestor’s family all the food offerings presented by the Israelites. ²⁹ Why do you^[e] scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?’
³⁰ “Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained. ³¹ The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age, ³² and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age. ³³ Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.
³⁴ “‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you—they will both die on the same day. ³⁵ I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed one always. ³⁶ Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.”’”

God's judgement is so real at that time. When one person does something wrong, Hid judgement will come upon them. Just like Hophni and Phinehas, they sinned in the house of God against God, and God spoke; He will judge them and let them repay by death for sin.

We all know this: the payment of sin is death. So both son's payment is righteous.

However, I found one thing very peculiar. Their father was involved in the repayment too. We all also know, the payment will go on to the be paid to the next generation. So if the family has any descendants, all of them will repay. 

However, their father needed to pay part of the price too. He needed to repay because he knew about their sin against God but he did not act appropriately. Godly men hate sin just like God. He is a priest, but he did not take measures to discipline hid children even though they had sinned repeatedly against God. 

We need to not only hate sin, but to take action against sin. Whether the sin is from us or from someone else. because if we do not act, we are condoning the sin.