And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
Thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation - Every version and almost every commentator understands this clause differently. The word צר tsar, which we translate an enemy, and the Vulgate aemulum, a…
Eli reproved his sons too gently, and did not threaten them as he should, and therefore God sent a prophet to him to reprove him sharply, and to threaten him, because, by his indulgence of them, he…
Cambridge Bible
thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation Or, a rival, the same word as that rendered "adversary" in 1Sa 1:6. The best explanation of this difficult passage appears to be this: -Thou, in the person of…
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