ESV Reformation Study Bible – 1 Sam 2:36
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1 Sam 2:36

2:36 eat a morsel of bread. Prophetic judgments were characterized by a correspondence of crime and punishment. The hunger threatened in this verse corresponds to the greedy satisfaction described in vv. 12–27 and 29.