1 Samuel 2:15-25

15 Also, before ¹they burned the fat, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only * raw."

16 If the man said to him, "They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire," then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."

17 Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for the men ²despised the offering of the LORD.

Samuel before the LORD as a Boy

18 Now ³Samuel was ministering before the LORD, as a boy ⁴wearing a linen ephod.

19 And his mother would make him a little ⁵robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer ⁶the yearly sacrifice.

20 Then Eli would ⁷bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the LORD give you children from this woman in place of the one she ⁸dedicated * to the LORD." And they went to their own home.

21 ⁹The LORD visited Hannah; and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And ¹⁰the boy Samuel grew before the LORD.

Eli Rebukes His Sons

22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard ¹¹all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how * they lay with ¹²the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

23 He said to them, "Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?

24 "No, my sons; for the report is not good ¹³which I hear the LORD'S people circulating.

25 "If one man sins against another, ¹⁴God will mediate for him; but ¹⁵if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the ¹⁶LORD desired to put them to death.

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1 Samuel 2:15-25 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

Cross References 16

1. Lev 3:3-5, 16
2. Malachi 2:7-9
3. 1 Samuel 2:11; 1 Samuel 3:1
4. 1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Samuel 22:18; 2 Samuel 6:14; 1 Chronicles 15:27
5. Exodus 28:31
6. 1 Samuel 1:3, 21
7. Luke 2:34
8. 1 Sam 1:11, 27, 28
9. Genesis 21:1
10. Judges 13:24; 1 Samuel 2:26; 1 Samuel 3:19-21; Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40
11. 1 Samuel 2:13-17
12. Exodus 38:8
13. 1 Kings 15:26
14. Deuteronomy 1:17
15. Numbers 15:30; 1 Samuel 3:14; Hebrews 10:26, 27
16. Joshua 11:20

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "offer up in smoke"
[b]. Lit "like the day"
[c]. Lit "your soul"
[d]. Lit "girded with"
[e]. Lit "seed"
[f]. Lit "the one asked for which was lent"
[g]. Lit "place"
[h]. Or "making the LORD'S "people transgress"