Teks -- 1 Samuel 2:30 (NET)

2:30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!

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Wesley: 1Sa 2:30 - I said

Where, or when did God say this? To Eli himself, or to his father, when the priesthood was translated from Eleazar's to Ithamar's family.

Wesley: 1Sa 2:30 - Walk

That is, minister unto me as high-priest. Walking is often put for discharging ones office; before me; may signify that he was the high-priest, whose sole prerogative it was to minister before God, or before the ark, in the most holy place.

Wesley: 1Sa 2:30 - For ever

As long as the Mosaical law and worship lasts.

Wesley: 1Sa 2:30 - Far from me

To fulfil my promise, which I hereby retract.

Clarke: 1Sa 2:30 - Should walk before me for ever

Should walk before me for ever - See Exo 29:9; Exo 40:15; Num 25:10-13, where it is positively promised that the priesthood should be continued in the family of Aaron For Ever. But although this promise appears to be absolute, yet we plainly see that, like all other apparently absolute promises of God, it is conditional, i.e., a condition is implied though not expressed

Clarke: 1Sa 2:30 - But now - be it far from me

But now - be it far from me - You have walked unworthily; I shall annul my promise, and reverse my ordinance. See Jer 18:9, Jer 18:10

Clarke: 1Sa 2:30 - For them that honor me

For them that honor me - This is a plan from which God will never depart; this can have no alteration; every promise is made in reference to it; "they who honor God shall be honored; they who despise him shall be lightly esteemed."

Defender: 1Sa 2:30 - God of Israel saith

See Exo 29:9; Num 25:13.

Defender: 1Sa 2:30 - lightly esteemed

This judgment (1Sa 2:30-33) indicates that the priestly line descended from Eli would eventually be terminated. This prophecy was finally carried out when Solomon banished Abiathar and replaced him with Zadok (1Ki 2:27; 1Sa 3:12)."

TSK: 1Sa 2:30 - I said // Be it far // them // I will honour // that despise

I said : Exo 28:43, Exo 29:9; Num 25:11-13

Be it far : Num 35:34 *marg 2Ch 15:2; Jer 18:9, Jer 18:10

them : Jdg 9:10; Psa 50:23; Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10; Isa 29:13; Dan 4:34; Mal 1:6; Joh 5:23, Joh 8:49, Joh 13:31, Joh 13:32, Joh 17:4, Joh 17:5

I will honour : Psa 18:20, Psa 91:14; Joh 5:44, Joh 12:26; 1Co 4:5; 1Pe 1:7

that despise : Num 11:20; 2Sa 12:9, 2Sa 12:10; Mal 2:8, Mal 2:9

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Poole: 1Sa 2:30 - I said indeed // Quest // Answ // Object // Should walk before me // For ever // Be it far from me // Them that honour me // I will honour // They that despise me // Shall be lightly esteemed

I said indeed

Quest. Where or when did God say this?

Answ Either,

1. When he made that promise for the perpetuation of the priesthood in Aaron’ s family, Exo 28:43 29:9 .

Object. If Eli and all his family had been cut off, yet that promise had been made good in Eleazar’ s family: how then was that promise recalled by this sentence against Eli?

Answ It was recalled and made void, though not absolutely and universally to all Aaron’ s family, yet respectively to Eli and his family, which were wholly excluded from the benefit of it, wherein otherwise they should have shared; even as God’ s keeping of the Israelites out of Canaan and in the wilderness for forty years, and destroying them there, is called his breach of promise , Num 14:31 , although the promise of Canaan was not simply made void to all the Israelites, but only to that evil generation of them; or as God’ s covenant with David, and with his seed, of which God saith that it should stand fast , Psa 89:28 , and that he would not break nor alter it, 1Sa 2:34 , yet is said to be made void, 1Sa 2:35 , to wit, in regard of some particular branches or members of that family. Or,

2. To Eli himself, or to his father, when the priesthood was translated from Eleazar’ s to Ithamar’ s family, for some cause not mentioned in Scripture, but most probably for some great miscarriage of some of them. If it be said that there is no such promise recorded in Scripture, it may be so replied, That there are many sayings and doings noted in Holy Scripture which were not spoken of in their proper times and places, as Gen 24:51 42:21 Hos 12:4 Luk 11:49 Act 20:25 . So the sense of the place may be this, That promise and privilege of the perpetuation of the priesthood in Phinehas and his family, made to them Num 25:12,13 , namely, upon condition of his and their faithfulness in their office, which is plainly understood, I now take away from that family for their wickedness, and I transfer it to thee and thine, and will fix it there upon the same condition.

Should walk before me i.e. minister unto me as high priest. Walking is oft put for discharging one’ s office; before me may signify that he was the high priest, whose sole prerogative it was to minister before God, or before the ark, in the most holy place.

For ever as long as the Mosaical law and worship lasted, as that phrase is oft used.

Be it far from me to wit, to fulfil my promise, which I repent of, and hereby retract.

Them that honour me that worship and serve me with reverence and godly fear, and according to my will, which I esteem as an honour done to me.

I will honour I will advance them to honour, and maintain them in it.

They that despise me not formally and directly; for so Eli’ s sons did not despise God; but indirectly and by consequence, by presumptuous disobedience of my commands; by defiling and disgracing my worship and ordinances, either by transgressing the rules I have given them therein, or by their ungodly and shameful conversation; and by making my service contemptible and abominable to others through their scandals: all which are manifest arguments of contempt of God, and are so called, as Num 11:20 1Sa 12:9,10 Mal 1:8 , and all which were eminently found in Eli’ s sons.

Shall be lightly esteemed both by God and men.

Haydock: 1Sa 2:30 - Ever

Ever. God had promised the priesthood to Aaron's seed (Calmet) as long as the Jewish religion should subsist. (Haydock) ---

He had also selected the branch of Eleazar, to recompense the zeal of Phinees; (Numbers xxv. 13,) and yet we find that the house of Ithamar had possession for a time of the high priesthood. We know not when or by what means by obtained it. The promises of God to them were surely only conditional; and some think that they only meant, that as He had permitted them to acquire this high dignity, so it was an earnest that he would not deprive them of it, unless they proved unworthy. But it is generally supposed that God had expressed his determination of this head. Heli, Achitob, Achias, Achimelech, and Abiathar, (Calmet) were the only pontiffs of the family of Ithamar. The last was obliged to resign to (Haydock) Sadoc, under the reign of Solomon, 3 Kings ii. 27. Some suppose that Heli usurped this dignity, (Capel) when he entered upon the civil administration, as the people thought none more fit for the office, in a time of trouble. (Bertram.) ---

Others think that the descendants of Eleazar forfeited this honour by their crimes or indolence, or because they were not of sufficient age. But this reason would not have excluded them for ever. The Scripture, therefore, insinuates that Heli was appointed by God, and that his descendants would have enjoyed his office, if they had not offended. (Calmet) ---

These promises were of a conditional nature both to Phinees and to Heli, and Sadoc, ver. 35. See Numbers xxv., &c. (Haydock) ---

God never changes. (Menochius)

Gill: 1Sa 2:30 - Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith // I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever // but now the Lord saith, be it far from me // for them that honour me I will honour // and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed

Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith,.... This being the case, so much contempt cast upon his sacrifices, and dishonour on himself:

I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever; or minister in the priest's office before him: if the house of Aaron in general is meant, it did continue so to do, in one branch or another of it, as long as the Mosaic dispensation lasted, which is meant by the phrase "for ever"; but since it is afterwards denied that it should, rather the house of Ithamar, or of the immediate parent of Eli, is meant, and this said when the priesthood was translated from the family of Eleazar to the family of Ithamar; when, and on what account that was done, we nowhere read. It is a tradition ^f, that it was in the time of the Levite's concubine; and because Phinehas, and the other priests, did not go from city to city, and reprove the Israelites for the many sins they were fallen into, that the priesthood was taken away out of the family of Eleazar, and translated to that of Ithamar:

but now the Lord saith, be it far from me; to continue the priesthood in the line of Ithamar; which argues no change in the purposes or promises of God, this being not a decree of his, but a declaration of his will; that if the house of Ithamar behaved well in the discharge of the office of the high priest, it should continue with them to the end of the Mosaic dispensation, but if not, it should be taken from them, and restored to the family of Eleazar; as it was in Solomon's time:

for them that honour me I will honour; as Phinehas the son of Eleazar did at Shittim, where he showed his zeal for the Lord of hosts, and had the promise of the everlasting priesthood; and which continued in his family until the Babylonish captivity, excepting the interval in which it was in the family of Ithamar, and for what reason is not known:

and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed; as the posterity of Eli, whose sons despised the Lord, and his offerings, as appeared by their conduct; and these were killed in battle in one day, and in the times of Solomon, Abiathar, of the posterity of Eli, was thrust out of the priesthood, and Zadok, of the line of Eleazar, was put in his room, 1Ki 2:27.