And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Ver. 11. I will do a thing in Israel.] All the people are threatened, as well us those priests; because for their faults they abhorred the Lord's sacrifice, and from the priests "profaneness was gone forth into all the land," Jer 23:15 so that there was "like priest, like people."
At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.] Through horror and amazement, as useth to fall out upon some sudden thunder clap, or the roaring of great ordnance, or the fall of those huge heaps of snow in the Alps, called by the inhabitants Labinae. a
a Lavat., in Judic., pp. 18,31. Vatab.