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1 Samuel 2:17-27

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17 So the servants' sin was very severe in the presence of the Lord, because they treated the Lord's offering with contempt.
18 The boy Samuel served in the Lord's presence and wore a linen ephod.[a]
19 Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: "May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she[b] has given to the Lord."[c] Then they would go home.
21 The Lord paid attention to Hannah's [need], and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.
22 Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.[d]
23 He said to them, "Why are you doing these things? I have heard about your evil actions from all these people.
24 No, my sons, the report I hear from the Lord's people is not good.
25 If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?"[e] But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to kill them.[f]
26 By contrast, the boy Samuel grew in stature and in favor with the Lord and with men.[g]
27 A man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: 'Didn't I reveal Myself to your ancestral house when it was in Egypt and belonged to Pharaoh's palace?
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1 Samuel 2:17-27 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 2

In this chapter the song of Hannah is recorded, 1Sa 2:1-10, and an account is given of the return of Elkanah and Hannah to their own home, and of the care she took yearly to provide a coat for Samuel, and of her being blessed with many other children, and of the growth and ministry of Samuel before the Lord, 1Sa 2:11,18-21,26, and of the wickedness of the sons of Eli, 1Sa 2:12-17, and of Eli's too gentle treatment of them when he reproved them for it, 1Sa 2:22-25 and of a sharp message sent him from the Lord on that account, threatening destruction to his house, of which the death of his two sons would be a sign, 1Sa 2:27-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 7

  • [a] 1 Sm 2:28
  • [b] DSS; Hb reads he
  • [c] 1 Sm 1:11,22,28
  • [d] Ex 38:8
  • [e] Nm 15:30-31; Heb 10:26-27
  • [f] Ex 5:2; 14:17-18; Jos 11:18-20
  • [g] Lk 2:52
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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