Commentary for Yoma 17:6

said: Why was Shiloh<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seat of the Tabernacle after the conquest.');">¹⁸</span> destroyed? Because of two [evil] things that prevailed there, immorality and contemptuous treatment of sanctified objects. [Proof that] immorality prevailed because it is written, Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did unto Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting. Notwithstanding R'Samuel B'Nahmani who said in the name of R'Johanan: Whosoever says, The sons of Eli sinned<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the text indicates. The same apologetics are elsewhere used to defend Reuben, the sons of Samuel, David, Solomon. (Shab. 55b) .');">¹⁹</span> is but mistaken; it is

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