撒母耳记上 2:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這樣，那兩個青年人在耶和華面前所犯的罪很大，因為他們藐視獻給耶和華的祭物。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
如 此 ， 这 二 少 年 人 的 罪 在 耶 和 华 面 前 甚 重 了 ， 因 为 他 们 藐 视 耶 和 华 的 祭 物 （ 或 译 ： 他 们 使 人 厌 弃 给 耶 和 华 献 祭 ） 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy continued to serve the Lord under Eli the priest. ¹² Now Eli's sons were evil men; they did not care about the Lord . ¹³ This is what the priests would normally do to the people: Every time someone brought a sacrifice, the meat would be cooked in a pot. The priest's servant would then come carrying a fork that had three prongs. ¹⁴ He would plunge the fork into the pot or the kettle. Whatever the fork brought out of the pot belonged to the priest. But this is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices. ¹⁵ Even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come to the person offering sacrifices and say, "Give the priest some meat to roast. He won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat." ¹⁶ If the one who offered the sacrifice said, "Let the fat be burned up first as usual, and then take anything you want," the priest's servant would answer, "No, give me the meat now. If you don't, I'll take it by force." ¹⁷ The Lord saw that the sin of the servants was very great because they did not show respect for the offerings made to the Lord . ¹⁸ But Samuel obeyed the Lord . As a boy he wore a linen holy vest. ¹⁹ Every year Samuel's mother made a little coat for him and took it to him when she went with her husband to Shiloh for the sacrifice. ²⁰ When Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, he would say, "May the Lord repay you with children through Hannah to take the place of the boy Hannah prayed for and gave back to the Lord ." Then Elkanah and Hannah would go home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before: Genesis 6:11, Genesis 10:9, Genesis 13:13, 2 Kings 21:6, Psalms 51:4, Isaiah 3:8

abhorred: Malachi 2:8, Malachi 2:13, Matthew 18:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:30 - Ye have Leviticus 21:9 - the daughter 1 Samuel 2:24 - ye make 1 Samuel 3:13 - his sons 2 Kings 17:21 - a great sin Nehemiah 13:11 - Why is the house Ezekiel 13:19 - for handfuls

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,

Genesis 2:6
but a mist would rise up from the earth and water all the ground.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From there the river branched out to become four rivers.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.

Genesis 2:13
The second river, named Gihon, flows around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.

Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply, and while he was asleep, God removed one of the man's ribs. Then God closed up the man's skin at the place where he took the rib.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord,.... That is, the sons of Eli; for they were the ringleaders who set these bad examples, which other priests followed, and therefore the sin is ascribed to them; and which was sadly aggravated by taking what was not their own, and by taking it in a forcible manner, and before the Lord had his part in the offering, and all this done in the tabernacle, in the presence of God; which plainly showed that they had not the fear of God before their eyes, nor any sense of his omniscience and omnipresence, any more than of his holiness and justice:

for men abhorred the offering of the Lord; it was irksome and disagreeable to them to bring their sacrifices, when they saw the law of God was not attended to, and the rules of sacrificing were not observed; such contempt of God, such abuse of sacrifices, such injury done to the sacrificers, and such covetousness and sensuality in the priests, that it even set the people against sacrifices, and made them loath them, and neglect to bring them. And this aggravated the sin of the young men, though the sacrificers were not excused hereby, 1 Samuel 2:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The offering of the Lord - Minchah, here in the general sense of “gift or offering” to God (compare Malachi 1:10-11; Malachi 3:3). In its restricted sense, it is used of the meat offerings, the unbloody sacrifices, and is then coupled with bloody sacrifices, sacrifices of slain beasts. (See 1 Samuel 2:29.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great — That is, Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli.

Men abhorred the offering — As the people saw that the priests had no piety, and that they acted as if there was no God; they despised God's service, and became infidels.

A national priesthood, when the foundation is right, may be a great blessing; but if the priesthood becomes corrupt, though the foundation itself stand sure, the corruption of the national manners will be the unavoidable consequence.