1 Samuel 2:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. ”

• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The offering of the Lord - Minchah, here in the general sense of “gift or offering” to God (compare Malachi 1:10-11 ; Malachi 3:3 ). In its restricted sense, it is used of the meat offerings, t...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men (o) abhorred the offering of the LORD. (o) Seeing the horrible abuse of it.

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Samuel 2:12-17 Wickedness of the Sons of EU. 1 Samuel 2:12 . Belial (see 1 Samuel 1:16 ). 1 Samuel 2:12 f. Move full stop from after Lord to after people, and render they did not regard...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sin . Hebrew. chata'. App-44. men . Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great - That is, Hophni and Phinehas, the son...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. No JFB...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Hannah's Song of Thanksgiving. The Sin of Eli's Sons 1-10. The Song of Hannah. This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary ( Luke 1...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (11-36) The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary — The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli — The Doom of the House of Ithamar.

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER IV. ELI'S HOUSE. 1 Samuel 2:11-36 . THE notices of little Samuel, that alternate in this passage with the sad accounts of Eli and his house, are like the green spots that vary the dull...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Growing before the Lord 1 Samuel 2:12-21 Not only were Eli's sons strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had gone to great lengths of profligacy. They had seized on a larger...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (13) And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; (14) A...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ‘LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT’ ‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.… And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.’ 1 S...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord ,.... That is, the sons of Eli; for they were the ringleaders who set these bad examples, which other priests followed, and therefor...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. Ver. 17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great. ] The greater because they...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nay, but thou shalt give it me now , &c. This was the very height of haughty impiety. That such submissive language did not prevail with them to have so much respect for God, as to permit his po...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bo...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. B. C. 1130.       11 And Elkanah went...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sin of the young men was very great; because they violently took away both man's and God's dues, and this before their time, and that with manifest contempt of God and men; and all this merely...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Rise Of Samuel And The Fall Of The House Of Eli ( 1 Samuel 2:12 to 1 Samuel 3:1 ). In this section we now have a description of the careful build up of Samuel's ministry and of his own spiri...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 2:12 . “Sons of Belial.” See on Chapter 1 Samuel 1:16 . 1 Samuel 2:13-14 . They were not content with the portions assigned to them by the Levitical l...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Samuel 1-4 (with Judges 21:16-25 ) I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant,...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Samuel 2:1 . Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth. This song is much admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, an...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial. Indulgent home life I. The sins it induces. The sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are the more prominent, so we will contemplate, 1. Their conduct and chara...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION SAMUEL 'S MINISTRATIONS AT SHILOH ( 1 Samuel 2:11-9 ). 1 Samuel 2:11 The child did minister. Left by his parents at Shiloh, Samuel ministered unto the Lord; that is, ce...

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Wicked Practices of Eli's Sons

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 21:6 ; Genesis 10:9 ; Genesis 13:13 ; Genesis 6:11 ; Isaiah 3:8 ; Malachi 2:13 ; Malachi 2:8 ; Matthew 18:7 ; Psalms 51:4

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• 1 Samuel 2:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Abhorred — But we know the validity and efficacy of the sacraments does not depend on the goodness of those that administer them. It was therefore folly and sin in the people, to think the worse of...

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