Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:8

8 [illegible: 1+ letters]e raiseth up the poor out of the dust ▪ and li[illegible: 1+ letters]teth up the begger from the dunghil , to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the LORDS, and he hath set the world upon them.

i. e. Out of their low and miserable condition; as this Phrase is used, 1 King. 16. 2. Psal. 113. 7. Compare Iob 16. 15. Psal. 22. 16.

From the most sordid place, and mean Estate. Compare 1 King. 16. 2. Iob 36. 11. Psal. 7. 5.

Not onely possess themselves, but transmit them to their Posterity, as hath oft happened in the World: or, possess.

i. e. A glorious Throne or Kingdom.

Either, 1. The foundations of the Earth, which God created, and upholds, and wherewith he sustains the Earth, and all its Inhabitants, as a House is supported with Pillars; and therefore it is not strange if he disposeth of persons and things therein as he pleaseth. Or, 2. The Princes or Governours of the Earth, which are called, the corners, or corner-stones of a Land or People, Iudg. 20. 2. 1 Sam. 14. 38. Zeph. 3. 6. and are fitly called Pillars, because they uphold the World, and keep it from sinking into Confusion: See Psal. 74. 2. Ier. 1. 18. Revel. 3. 12. And these are here said to be the Lords, by Creation and Constitution, because he advanceth them to their State, and preserves them in it; Prov. 8. 15, 16. and puts the world, or the Kingdoms of the World, upon them, as burdens upon their shoulders; See Isa. 9. 6.

c Which the poor are said to embrace, Lament. 4. 5.

Marginal references: Psa. 113. 7.; Job 36. 7.