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Why kick you 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?
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The Arrogance of Blessing
Commentators explain the phrase "kick at my sacrifice" using the image of a well-fed animal that becomes rebellious and kicks its master. Having grown prosperous from God's provision, Eli's family had become arrogant and ungrateful, treating God's sacred offerings with contempt instead of reverence.
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1 Samuel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Why do you kick? - A well-fed beast becomes unmanageable and rebellious; it refuses the yoke and bursts its bonds (Jeremiah 5:5)…
19th Century
Anglican
The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary—The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli—The Doom of the House of Ithamar.
Baptist
Out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore kick you at my sacrifice, and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation
Those who allow their children to follow any evil way, and do not use their authority to restrain and punish them, in effect honour them more than …
