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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Samuel 2:17

The sin of the young men was very great. — Grave peccatum sacerdotum ob scandalurn datum laicis (“the sin of the priests was a great one, because it put a stumbling-block in the way of the people”). — A. Lapide, quoted by Wordsworth. Religion was being brought into general disrepute through the conduct of its leading ministers; was it likely that piety, justice, and purity would be honoured and loved in the land of Israel when the whole ritual of the sacrifices was openly scoffed at in the great sanctuary of the people by the chief priests of their faith?

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See also 1 Samuel 2:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 2:17. _WHEREFORE THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT_] That is, Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli. _MEN ABHORRED THE OFFERING_] As the people saw that the priests had no piety,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE OFFERING OF THE LORD - Minchah, here in the general sense of “gift or offering” to God (compare Malachi 1:10; Malachi 3:3). In its restricted sense, it is used of the meat offerings, the unbloody...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE FAILURE OF ELI AND HIS SONS CHAPTER 2:12-36 _ 1. The wicked sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12)_ 2. Samuel before Jehovah and Hannah blessed (1 Samuel 2:18) 3. The empty warning of Eli (1 Samuel 2:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 2:12 WICKEDNESS OF THE SONS OF EU. 1 Samuel 2:12. Belial (see 1 Samuel 1:16). 1 Samuel 2:12 f. Move full stop from

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the young men_ Hophni and Phinehas. _men abhorred_ Rather, THE MEN DESPISED, or, BROUGHT INTO CONTEMPT THE OFFERING OF JEHOVAH. The Sept. omits _the men_. Corruption in the priesthood begets profani...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The faithless priests of Shiloh 12. _sons of Belial_ WORTHLESS MEN. See note on 1 Samuel 1:16. _they knew not the_Lord] Were ignorant of His character and so despised His laws. Cp. Judges 2:10; Job 1...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. The Childhood of Samuel, 1 Samuel 2:12 to 1 Samuel 3:21. _Eli's sinful sons._ 1 Samuel 2:12-17 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord. 13 And the priests-' custom with...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _ALSO BEFORE THEY BURNT THE FAT, THE PRIEST'S SERVANT CAME, AND SAID TO THE MAN THAT SACRIFICED, GIVE FLESH TO ROAST FOR THE PRIEST; FOR HE WILL NOT HAVE SODDEN FLESH OF THEE, BUT RAW._ No JFB commen...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:17 offering (b-17) _ Minchah_ , 'oblation.' see Note b, Leviticus 1:3...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING. THE SIN OF ELI'S SONS 1-10. The Song of Hannah. This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:46)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOR MEN ABHORRED] rather, 'for the men (i.e. the sons of Eli) despised.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 HANNAH’S PRAYER V1 Hannah prayed and said, ‘I am very happy when I think about the *Lord....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תְּהִ֨י חַטַּ֧את הַ נְּעָרִ֛ים גְּדֹולָ֥ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IV. _ ELI'S HOUSE._ 1 Samuel 2:11. THE notices of little Samuel, that alternate in this passage with the sad accounts of Eli and his house, are like the green spots that vary the dull stretc...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GROWING BEFORE THE LORD 1 Samuel 2:12 Not only were Eli's sons strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had gone to great lengths of profligacy. They had seized on a larger share of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men (o) abhorred the offering of the LORD. (o) Seeing the horrible abuse of it....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lord. People, seeing that the law was not observed, refrained from presenting victims. (Menochius) --- They are but too apt to follow the bad example of their teachers. (Haydock) --- Hence God punishe...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (13) And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; (14) An...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT’_ ‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.… And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.’ 1 Samu...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In the beautiful song of 1 Samuel 2 Hannah recognises this great principle of sovereign grace, and of the power of God; that He brings down the proud and those who trust in the flesh, and exalts the w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT BEFORE THE LORD,.... That is, the sons of Eli; for they were the ringleaders who set these bad examples, which other priests followed, and therefore t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD. Ver. 17. _Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great._] The greater because they w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Nay, but thou shalt give it me now_, &c. This was the very height of haughty impiety. That such submissive language did not prevail with them to have so much respect for God, as to permit his portion...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Hannahs song in thankefulnesse. 12 The sinne of Elies sonnes. 18 Samuels ministerie. 20 By Elies blessing, Hannah is more fruitfull. 22 Eli reprooueth his sonnes. 28 A prophecie against Elies h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, it was an outrage equivalent to sacrilege; FOR MEN ABHORRED THE OFFERING OF THE LORD, they despised and blasphemed it as a form of gr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Wicked Practices of Eli's Sons...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bor...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was c...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 2:17 sin H2403 men H5288 very H3966 great H1419 before H6440 LORD H3068 men H582 abhorred H5006 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RISE OF SAMUEL AND THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ELI (1 SAMUEL 2:12 TO 1 SAMUEL 3:1). In this section we now have a description of the careful build up of Samuel's ministry and of his own spiritual gro...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hannah's prophetic prayer. Evil sons of Eli. Samuel in the tabernacle. The warning to Eli. CHARACTERS: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a prophet. CONCLUSION: Nothing i...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 2:1. _Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth._ This song is much admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, and t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial._ INDULGENT HOME LIFE I. The sins it induces. The sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are the more prominent, so we will contemplate, 1. Their conduct and character....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:11 At the same time that the boy Samuel is ministering to the Lord (vv. 1 Samuel 2:11, 1

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:12 These verses describe how the WORTHLESS... SONS OF ELI (v. 1 Samuel 2:12) treated the tabernacle sacrifices...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 2:12. “SONS OF BELIAL.” See on Chapter 1 Samuel 1:16. 1 Samuel 2:13. They were not content with the portions assigned to them by the Levitical law, namely, the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SAMUEL'S MINISTRATIONS AT SHILOH (1 Samuel 2:11-9). 1 SAMUEL 2:11 THE CHILD DID MINISTER. Left by his parents at Shiloh, Samuel ministered unto the Lord; that is, certain du

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This book presents the history, the personal history of Samuel who was the last of the Judges. It ushers in the beginning of the period of the kings in the children of Israel, or among the children of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 21:6; Genesis 10:9; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 6:11; Isaiah 3:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Abhorred — But we know the validity and efficacy of the sacraments does not depend on the goodness of those that administer them. It was therefore folly and sin in the people, to think the worse of Go...

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