1 Samuel 1
Sit still.Ps 37:3-5; Isa 28:16; 30:7 The First Book of SAMUEL, otherwise called The First Book of the KINGS 1 Elkanah, a Levite, having two wives, worships yearly at Shiloh. 4 He cherishes Hannah, though barren, and provoked by Peninnah. 9 Hannah in grief prays for a child. 12 Eli first rebuking her, afterwards blesses her. 19 Hannah, having born Samuel, stays at home till he is weaned. 24 She presents him, according to her vow, to the Lord. Ramathaim-zophim.This ancient town, now called Ramla, is, according to Phocas, about thirty-six miles west of Jerusalem, and, according to modern travellers, about nine miles from Joppa and a league from Lydda, between which it is situated. It is built on a rising ground, on a rich plain, and contains about two thousand families. 19; Mt 27:57Arimathea. mount.Jud 17:1; 19:1Elkanah.1Ch 6:25-27,34Zuph.9:5Ephrathite.17:12; Jud 12:5; Ru 1:2; 1Ki 11:26 two.Ge 4:19,23; 29:23-29; Jud 8:30; Mt 19:8but.Ge 16:1,2; 25:21; 29:31; Jud 13:2; Lu 1:7 yearly. Heb. from year to year.Ex 23:14,17; 34:23; De 16:16; Lu 2:41to worship.De 12:5-7,11-14Shiloh.9; Jos 18:1; Jud 18:31; Ps 78:60; Jer 7:12-14And the.9; 2:12-17,34; 3:13; 4:4,11,17,18 offered.Le 3:4; 7:15; De 12:5-7,17; 16:11 a worthy portion. or, a double portion.The Hebrew phrase, {manah achath appayim,} is correctly rendered by Gesenius, {ein Stud fur zwei personen, doppelle Portion,} "a portion for two persons, a double portion;" for {aph} in Hebrew, and [prosopon] in Greek, which literally mean a face, are used for a person. Ge 43:34; 45:22he loved.Ge 29:30,31; De 21:15shut up.Ge 20:18; 30:2 adversary.Le 18:18; Job 6:14provoked her. Heb. angered her. year.2:19when she. or, from the time that she. Heb. from her goingup. why weepest.2Sa 12:16,17; 2Ki 8:12; Job 6:14; Joh 20:13,15; 1Th 5:14am not.Ru 4:15; Ps 43:4; Isa 54:1,6 3:3,15; 2Sa 7:2; Ps 5:7; 27:4; 29:9 in bitterness of soul. Heb. bitter of soul.Ru 1:20; 2Sa 17:8; Job 7:11; 9:18; 10:1; Isa 38:15; 54:6; La 3:15prayed.Ps 50:15; 91:15; Lu 22:44; Heb 5:7wept sore.Ge 50:10; Jud 21:2; 2Sa 13:36; 2Ki 20:3; Jer 13:17; 22:10 vowed.Ge 28:20; Nu 21:2; 30:3-8; Jud 11:30; Ec 5:4look.Ge 29:32; Ex 4:31; 2Sa 16:12; Ps 25:18remember.19; Ge 8:1; 30:22; Ps 132:1,2a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite. there.Nu 6:5; Jud 13:5 continued praying. Heb. multiplied to pray.Lu 11:8-10; 18:1; Eph 6:18; Col 4:2; 1Th 5:17; Jas 5:16 spake.Ge 24:42-45; Ne 2:4; Ps 25:1; Ro 8:26she had.Zec 9:15; Ac 2:13; 1Co 13:7 How long.Jos 22:12-20; Job 8:2; Ps 62:3; Pr 6:9; Mt 7:1-3put away.Job 11:14; 22:23; Pr 4:24; Eph 4:25,31 No, my Lord.Pr 15:1; 25:15of a sorrowful spirit. Heb. hard of spirit. poured.Ps 42:4; 62:8; 142:2,3; 143:6; La 2:19 a daughter.2:12; 10:27; 25:25; De 13:13out of.Job 6:2,3; 10:1,2; Mt 12:34,35complaint. or, meditation. Go.25:35; 29:7; Jud 18:6; 2Ki 5:19; Mr 5:34; Lu 7:50; 8:48the God.1Ch 4:10; Ps 20:3-5 Let thine.Ge 32:5; 33:8,15; Ru 2:13went her.Ec 9:7; Joh 16:24; Ro 15:13; Php 4:6,7 they rose.9:26; Ps 5:3; 55:17; 119:147; Mr 1:35knew.Ge 4:1and the Lord.11; Ge 8:1; 21:1; 30:22; Ps 25:7; 136:23; Lu 23:42 when the time was come about. Heb. in revolution of days.Samuel. that is, Asked of God. Because. Ge 4:25; 5:29; 16:11; 29:32-35; 30:6-21; 41:51,52; Ex 2:10,22Mt 1:21 3; Ge 18:19; Jos 24:15; Ps 101:2 then.De 16:16; Lu 2:22,41,42and there.11,28; 2:11,18; 3:1; Ps 23:6; 27:4for ever.Ex 21:6; Le 25:23; Jos 4:7; Ps 110:4; Isa 9:7 Do what.Nu 30:7-11the Lord.2Sa 7:25; Isa 44:26son suck.Ge 21:7,8; Ps 22:9; Mt 24:19; Lu 11:27 A.M. 2839. B.C. 1165. An. Ex. Is. 326. she took.Nu 15:9,10; De 12:5,6,11; 16:16three bullocks.The LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, read "a bullock of three years old;" which is probably correct, as we read (ver. 25) that they slew {eth happar,} "the bullock." house.4:3,4; Jos 18:1 brought.Lu 2:22; 18:15,16 as thy soul.17:55; 20:3; Ge 42:15; 2Sa 11:11; 14:19; 2Ki 2:2,4,6; 4:30 For this.11-13; Mt 7:7and the Lord.Ps 66:19; 116:1-5; 118:5; 1Jo 5:15 lent him. or, returned him, whom I have obtained bypetition, to the Lord. The word {hishilteehoo}, "I have lent him," is the {Hiphil} conjugation of {shuäl,} "he asked," (ver. 27,) and refers to the name of Samuel. he shall be. or, he whom I have obtained by petition shallbe returned. he worshipped. Ge 24:26,48,52; 2Ti 3:15
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