Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:32

32 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 .

So the sense is, Thou shalt see, not in thy Person, but in thy Posterity; (it being most frequent in Scripture to attribute that to Parents, which properly belongs to their Posterity onely; as Gen. 17. 8. and 27. 29, 40.) an enemy, i. e. thy Competitour, or him who shall possess that place of high Trust and Honour which now thou enjoyest; (such persons being through Mans corrupt Nature esteemed as a mans worst Enemy:) in my habitation, i. e. in the Sanctuary. And then he adds by way of Aggravation, that this sad Accident should happen, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; i. e. In a time when God should eminently bless Israel, and make good all his Promises to them, which was in Solomon's days, when Abiathar of Eli's Race was put out o[illegible: 1+ letters] the High-Priesthood, and Za[illegible: 1+ letters]ck was put in his place, 1 King. 2. 27, 35. when the Priesthood was most glorious, and most Profitable, and comfortable; and therefore the loss of i[illegible: 1+ letters] more deplorable. But the words may be otherwise rendered, as is noted in the Margent of our English Bibles; Thou shalt see, to wit, in thy own person, the affliction, or oppression, or calamity of my habitation, i. e. either of the Land of Israel, wherein I dwell; or of the Sanctuary, called the habitation by way of Eminency, whose greatest glory the Ark was, 1 Sam. 4. 21, 22. and consequently, who[illegible: 1+ letters]e greatest Calamity the loss of the Ark was; for, or instead of all that good wherewith God would have blessed Israel, or was about to bless Israel; having raised up a young Prophet Samuel, and thereby given good grounds of hope that he intended to bless Israel, if Thou and thy Sons had not hindred it by your Sins, which God was resolved severely to Punish. So this clause of the Threatning concerns Eli's Person, as the following concerns his Posterity. And this best agrees with the most proper and usual signification of that Phrase, Thou shalt see.

i. e. As long as the Priesthood continues in thy Family; or as long as the Levitical Priesthood lasts.

Marginal references: Or, the [illegible: 1 word] of the Tabernacle, for all the wealth which God would have given Israel.; See Zech. 8. 4.