1 Samuel 2:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The original text is rather obscure and difficult of construction, but the King James Version probably gives the sense of it. The margin gives another meaning.

In all the wealth ... - The allusion is particularly to Solomon’s reign, when Zadok was made priest instead of Abiathar, 1 Kings 2:26-27. (See 1 Kings 4:20 ff) The enormous number of sacrifices then offered must have been a great source of wealth to the priests 1 Kings 8:63-66.

1 Samuel 2:32

32 And thou shalt see an enemyf in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.