1 Samuel 2:32

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30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ^a‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ^b‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and ^cthose who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

31 Behold, ^athe days are coming that I will cut off your¹ arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

32 And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be ^aan old man in your house forever.

33 But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

34 Now this shall be ^aa sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: ^bin one day they shall die, both of them.

35 Then ^aI will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. ^bI will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before ^cMy anointed forever.

36 ^aAnd it shall come to pass that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and say, “Please,¹ put me in one of the priestly positions, that I may eat a piece of bread.” ’ ”

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Barnes' Notes

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1 Samuel 2:32

The original text is rather obscure and difficult of construction, but the King James Version probably gives the sense of it. The margin gives another meaning.

In all the wealth ... - The allusion is particularly to Solomon' s reign, when Zadok was made priest instead of Abiathar, I Kings 2:26-27. (See I Kings 4:20 ff) The enormous number of sacrifices then offered must have been a great source of wealth to the priests I Kings 8:63-66.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 2:32:

2 Samuel 3:29
Isaiah 7:11
Zechariah 2:13

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