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

Bible Comments

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, the unbloody sacrifices, and is then coupled with bloody sacrifices, sacrifices of slain beasts. (See 1 Samuel 2:29.)

1 Samuel 2:17

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