1 Samuel 2:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The man of thine That is, of thy posterity. Shall be to grieve thy heart Shall be so forlorn and miserable, that if thou wast alive to see it, it would grieve thee at the heart, and thou wouldst consume thine eyes with weeping for their calamities. The increase of thy house That is, thy children. Flower of their age About the thirtieth year of their age, when they were to be admitted to the full administration of their office.

1 Samuel 2:33

33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.