Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:17

17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD : for men abhorred the offering of the LORD .

Because they violently took away both Mans and Gods Dues, and this before their time, and that with manifest contempt of God and Men; and all this meerly for the gratifying of their sensual Appetite.

i. e. Even in the place of Gods special presence, where he saw and observed all their miscarriages: which argues the height of impiety and impudence.

They neglected and abhorred the practise of carrying up Sacrifices to be [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1+ letters]hich they knew would be so grosly abused; and which, as they might think, would be rejected and abhorred by God himself; and therefore they would not contribute to the Priests Sin, and the corruption of Gods Worship; but judged it better to neglect the thing, than to expose it to the Priests depravation; wherein yet they Erred, as we see, v. 24.