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 for the gratifying of their sensual appetite. Before the Lord, i.e. even in the place of God's special presence, where he saw and observed all their miscarriages; which argues the height of impiety and imprudence. Men abhorred the offering of the Lord; they neglected and abhorred the practice of carrying up sacrifices to be offered, which they knew would be so grossly abused; and which, as they might think, would be rejected and abhorred by God himself; and therefore they would not contribute to the priests sin, and the corruption of God's worship, but judged it better to neglect the thing, than to expose it to the priests depravation; wherein yet they erred, as we see, 1 Samuel 2:21.
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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.