1 Samuel 2:29
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
Note Or scorn
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- kick ye
- 1 Samuel 2:13–17; Deuteronomy 32:15; Malachi 1:12, 13
- and at mine
- They disdained to take the part allowed by the law; and would take for themselves what part they pleased, and as much as they pleased.
- 1 Samuel 2:13–16
- habitation
- Deuteronomy 12:5, 6; Joshua 18:1
- and honourest
- By permitting his sons to deal thus with the sacrifices, and to be served first, by taking their part before the fat, etc., was burnt to the Lord, Eli thus honoured his sons above God.
- Leviticus 19:15; Deuteronomy 33:9; Matthew 10:37; Matthew 22:16; Luke 14:26; 2 Corinthians 5:16; James 3:17
- make
- 1 Samuel 2:13–16; Isaiah 56:11, 12; Ezekiel 13:19; Ezekiel 34:2; Hosea 4:8; Micah 3:5; Romans 16:18