1 Samuel 2:33

33 Doch will ich dir nicht einen jeglichen von meinem Altar ausrotten, auf daß deine Augen verschmachten und deine Seele sich gräme; und alle Menge deines Hauses sollen sterben, wenn sie Männer geworden sind.

1 Samuel 2:33 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 2:33

And the man of thine
. Of his family, which should spring from him: whom I shall not cut off from mine altar: from serving there: who though he shall not be an high priest, but a common priest, as all the descendants of Aaron were,

shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart;
that is, the eyes and heart of his posterity; who though they should see of their family ministering in the priest's office, yet should make so poor a figure on account of their outward meanness and poverty, or because of their want of wisdom, and intellectual endowments, or because of their scandalous lives, that it would fill their hearts with grief and sorrow, and their eyes with tears, so that their eyes would fail, and be consumed, and their hearts be broken:

and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their
age;
or "die men" ^F11; grown men, not children, when it would not be so great an affliction to part with them; but when at man's estate, in the prime of their days, perhaps about thirty years of age, the time when the priests entered upon their office to do all the work of it; the Targum is,

``shall be killed young men:''

it is more than once said in the Talmud ^F12, that there was a family in Jerusalem, the men of which died at eighteen years of age; they came and informed Juchanan ben Zaccai of it; he said to them, perhaps of the family of Eli are ye, as it is said, ( 1 Samuel 2:33 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (Myvna wtwmy) "morientur viri", Montanus, Tigurine version; "morientur virile aetate", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so V. L.
F12 T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 18. 1. & Yebamot, fol. 105. 1.

1 Samuel 2:33 In-Context

31 Siehe, es wird die Zeit kommen, daß ich will entzweibrechen deinen Arm und den Arm deines Vaterhauses, daß kein Alter sei in deinem Hause, {~}

32 und daß du sehen wirst deinen Widersacher in der Wohnung bei allerlei Gutem, das Israel geschehen wird, und wird kein Alter sein in deines Vaters Hause ewiglich.

33 Doch will ich dir nicht einen jeglichen von meinem Altar ausrotten, auf daß deine Augen verschmachten und deine Seele sich gräme; und alle Menge deines Hauses sollen sterben, wenn sie Männer geworden sind.

34 Und das soll dir ein Zeichen sein, das über deine zwei Söhne, Hophni und Pinehas, kommen wird: auf einen Tag werden sie beide sterben. {~}

35 Ich will aber einen treuen Priester erwecken, der soll tun, wie es meinem Herzen und meiner Seele gefällt; dem will ich ein beständiges Haus bauen, daß er vor meinem Gesalbten wandle immerdar.