New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Samuel 2:27-30

27Then 1a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘2Did I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

28 3Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me? And did I not 4give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

29Why are you 5 6showing contempt for My sacrifice and My offering 7which I have commanded for My 8dwelling, and why are you 9honoring your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the 10choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’

30Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘11I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father was to walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me--for 12those who honor Me I will honor, and those 13who despise Me will be insignificant.

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Notes

1. 1 Samuel 2:27 Deut 33:1; Judg 13:6 ↩
2. 1 Samuel 2:27 Ex 4:14-16; 12:1, 43 ↩
3. 1 Samuel 2:28 Ex 28:1-4; 30:7, 8; Lev 8:7, 8 ↩
4. 1 Samuel 2:28 Lev 7:35, 36 ↩
5. 1 Samuel 2:29 Lit giving a kick to ↩
6. 1 Samuel 2:29 1 Sam 2:13-17 ↩
7. 1 Samuel 2:29 Deut 12:5-9 ↩
8. 1 Samuel 2:29 Ps 26:8 ↩
9. 1 Samuel 2:29 Matt 10:37 ↩
10. 1 Samuel 2:29 Or first ↩
11. 1 Samuel 2:30 Ex 29:9; Num 25:13 ↩
12. 1 Samuel 2:30 Ps 50:23 ↩
13. 1 Samuel 2:30 Mal 2:9 ↩

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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 2