1 Samuel 2:29

29 Por que vocês zombam de meu sacrifício e da oferta que determinei para a minha habitação? Por que você honra seus filhos mais do que a mim, deixando-os engordar com as melhores partes de todas as ofertas feitas por Israel, o meu povo?’

1 Samuel 2:29 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 2:29

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice, and at mine offering, which
I have commanded in my habitation
To be offered in the tabernacle, where the Lord had his dwelling; which they might be said to kick and spurn at, despising them, as if there were not enough of them, nor the best of them given to them for their maintenance; a metaphor taken from cattle well fed and fat, which kick and spurn with their feet at even the owners and feeders of them. The Targum is,

``why do ye use force with the holy offerings?''

that is, take them away by force, when there was such a sufficient quantity allowed them for their support. Some understand this of their driving away such, that before used to bring their sacrifices to be offered, but being so ill treated, refrained from bringing them:

and honourest thy sons above me;
by suffering them to take their part of the sacrifices, and even what did not belong to them, before God had his part, or before the fat was burnt; and by continuing them in their office, to the dishonour of God, his name and worship, when they ought to have been turned out by him and punished; but by this he preferred the honour of his sons before the honour of God, and chose rather that he should be dishonoured, than that they should be censured:

to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel
my people?
they took the best pieces of the peace offerings from them by force, having no right unto them; and this they did to indulge their luxury and sensuality, which Eli connived at; and it is highly probable took part of the roasted meat his sons provided for themselves, out of the choicest pieces of the offerings of the people; since he himself is included in this clause, "to make yourselves fat", as his sons might be, and it is certain he himself was, ( 1 Samuel 4:18 ) .

1 Samuel 2:29 In-Context

27 E veio um homem de Deus a Eli e lhe disse: “Assim diz o SENHOR: ‘Acaso não me revelei claramente à família de seu pai, quando eles estavam no Egito, sob o domínio do faraó?

28 Escolhi seu pai dentre todas as tribos de Israel para ser o meu sacerdote, subir ao meu altar, queimar incenso e usar um colete sacerdotal na minha presença. Também dei à família de seu pai todas as ofertas preparadas no fogo pelos israelitas.

29 Por que vocês zombam de meu sacrifício e da oferta que determinei para a minha habitação? Por que você honra seus filhos mais do que a mim, deixando-os engordar com as melhores partes de todas as ofertas feitas por Israel, o meu povo?’

30 “Portanto, o SENHOR, o Deus de Israel, declara: ‘Prometi à sua família e à linhagem de seu pai que ministrariam diante de mim para sempre’. Mas agora o SENHOR declara: ‘Longe de mim tal coisa! Honrarei aqueles que me honram, mas aqueles que me desprezam serão tratados com desprezo.

31 É chegada a hora em que eliminarei a sua força e a força da família de seu pai, e não haverá mais nenhum idoso na sua família,