the poor: i.e. the oppressed. Compare Psalms 113:7. pillars. Hebrew. mazuk. that which is set fast. Occurs only here and 1 Samuel 14:5, where it is rendered "situate".
Related Commentaries of 1 Samuel 2:8
1 Samuel 2:8
8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.