1 Samuel 2:29

Wherefore kick ye Better, Wherefore do ye trample upon, i.e. treat with contempt.

at my sacrifice and at mine offering When the words are distinguished, that rendered sacrifice(literally slaying) includes as a general term all sacrifices of slain animals: that rendered offering(literally a gift) is applied to unbloody sacrifices, the so-called meat-offering: but the latter is often used in a wide sense to include all kinds of sacrifice, e.g. in 1 Samuel 2:17. The distinction between the words is fairly observed in the E. V.

in my habitation The word is used again in 1 Samuel 2:32, and in Psalms 26:8, of the tabernacle. The Heb. is obscure, and the Sept. rendering diverges considerably from the present text, thus, "And wherefore didst thou look upon my offering and my sacrifice with a shameless eye?"

with the chiefest of all the offerings "With the first," or, " best part of every offering," which should have been God's. See note on 1 Samuel 2:13.