1 Samuel 2:29
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

Young's Literal Translation
Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded [in] My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

King James Bible
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Hebrew
Why, then,
לָ֣מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do you kick at
תִבְעֲט֗וּ (ṯiḇ·‘ă·ṭū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1163: To trample down, despise

My sacrifice
בְּזִבְחִי֙ (bə·ziḇ·ḥî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

and offering
וּבְמִנְחָתִ֔י (ū·ḇə·min·ḥā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I have prescribed
צִוִּ֖יתִי (ṣiw·wî·ṯî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

for [My] dwelling place?
מָע֑וֹן (mā·‘ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4583: An abode, of God, men, animals, a retreat

You have honored
וַתְּכַבֵּ֤ד (wat·tə·ḵab·bêḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3513: To be heavy, weighty, or burdensome

your sons
בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙ (bā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

more than Me
מִמֶּ֔נִּי (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

by fattening yourselves
לְהַבְרִֽיאֲכֶ֗ם (lə·haḇ·rî·’ă·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1254: To create, to cut down, select, feed

with the best
מֵרֵאשִׁ֛ית (mê·rê·šîṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7225: The first, in place, time, order, rank

of all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the offerings
מִנְחַ֥ת (min·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

of My people
לְעַמִּֽי׃ (lə·‘am·mî)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

Israel.’
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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