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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. SAMUEL THE PROPHET AND JUDGE
1. The Birth and Childhood of Samuel
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. Elkanah and his wives (1 Samuel 1:1)_
2. Hannah's prayer and vow (1 Samuel 1:9)
3. Th...
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HANNAH PRAYS FOR A CHILD. In her distress Hannah betook herself to the
sanctuary and prayed before Yahweh, _i.e._ before the Ark, for a son.
She vowed that if a son were given her, she would devote hi...
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HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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Hannah's Prayer and its answer
9. _So Hannah rose up_ Simply AND. Hannah left the feast for which she
had not heart, and went to pray.
_Eli the priest_ Eli belonged to the house of Ithamar Aaron's fo...
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_Hannah's prayer. 1 Samuel 1:9-18_
9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had
drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of
the Lord.
10 And she _wa...
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_NOW HANNAH, SHE SPAKE IN HER HEART; ONLY HER LIPS MOVED, BUT HER
VOICE WAS NOT HEARD: THEREFORE ELI THOUGHT SHE HAD BEEN DRUNKEN._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE BIRTH OF SAMUEL
Hannah, the childless wife of Elkanah, is. grieved by her
childlessness, and prays for a son. Her prayer is heard, and in
gratitude she consecrates her child to the service of Jeho...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
INTRODUCTION TO 1 AND 2 SAMUEL
The books of 1 and 2 Samuel used to be one book. The writer wrote the
book in the *Hebrew language. Many years later, m...
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AND ELI SAID UNTO HER. — The LXX. or Septuagint attempts to soften
the harshness of the high priest to Hannah by inserting before Eli the
word “servant,” or “young man,” thus suggesting that the hard,...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֨יהָ֙ עֵלִ֔י עַד
־מָתַ֖י תִּש
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CHAPTER I.
_ HANNAH'S TRIAL AND TRUST._
1 Samuel 1:1.
THE prophet Samuel, like the book which bears his name, comes in as a
connecting link between the Judges and the Kings of Israel. He
belonged to...
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THE CHILD DEDICATED TO GOD
1 Samuel 1:12
Here is a delightful specimen of secret fellowship with God, and its
results. Many were coming and going in the Tabernacle-court. It was no
place for private...
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The first Book of Samuel covers a period of transition in the history
of the nation, dealing with the process from the judges to the kings.
The condition of the people under the Judges, as we have see...
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_Much. Heli's "son or servant," ( Greek: paidarion, according to the
Septuagint) addressed these words to Anna. Her going to pray
immediately after a feast, instead of taking recreation, increased the...
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(14) And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
thy wine from thee.
It, is worthy the Reader's remark, that when the Holy Ghost was poured
out with such a fulness of power, on the...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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We find then, in the beginning of this book, priesthood existing
before God in the original form we have mentioned. Eli, pious himself,
and fearing God, maintained no order in the priestly family. The...
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AND ELI SAID UNTO HER, HOW LONG WILT THOU BE DRUNKEN?.... What, every
day drunk? what, continually in this wicked practice? when will it be
stopped? for Eli might have observed on other days, and at o...
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And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy
wine from thee.
Ver. 14. _How long wilt thou be drunken?_] Eli sat there for the
purpose to see good order observed: and seeing Hann...
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1 Elkanah a Leuite hauing two wiues, worshippeth yeerely at Shiloh.
4 Hee cherisheth Hannah, though barren, and prouoked by Peninnah.
9 Hannah in griefe, prayeth for a childe.
12 Eli first rebuking...
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And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy
wine from thee, namely, by sleeping off its effects in secret, where
her supposed condition would offend no one....
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THE UNHAPPINESS AND THE PRAYER OF HANNAH...
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From 1 Chronicles 6:22 we learn that Elkanah was a Levite of the sons
of Kohath. The names of four of his forebears are recorded in verse 1,
which in order of descent are Zuph (meaning "observer"); To...
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9-18 Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy
of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in
prayer, not only to ask good things in general, but to mention tha...
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Come not before the Lord in thy drunkenness, but go and sleep it out,
and repent of this thy sin....
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HANNAH'S PRAYER FOR A SON AND HOW SHE BECAME CONFIDENT THAT YHWH HAD
ANSWERED HER PRAYER (1 SAMUEL 1:9).
In this passage Hannah prays desperately for a son, and promises YHWH
that if He will grant he...
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1 SAMUEL 1-4
_(with Judges 21:16)_
I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great
fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes
an admirable servant, who does...
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CONTENTS: The vow of Hannah and the birth of Samuel.
CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Elkhanah, Hannah, Samuel, Peninnah.
CONCLUSION: Prayer is heart's ease to a gracious soul. If we seek on
the basis of God's...
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1 Samuel 1:1. _Ramathaim-zophim._ The latter name being plural, refers
to high towers; but Ramathaim was afterwards called Arimathea, the
town of Joseph the ruler, twenty miles from Jerusalem. But Zup...
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_Therefore Eli thought she was drunken._
OF THE SINFULNESS OF RASH JUDGMENTS
This was not the first time, nor will it be the last that God’s true
servants have been mocked and falsely accused for act...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 1:1 The Story of Samuel. Samuel’s birth
is God’s answer to the prayer of a childless woman. Samuel becomes a
prophet who guides Israel as they move from the period of the jud...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 1:12 Eli assumes that Hannah is DRUNK and
therefore rebukes her. This shows his devotion to the law, which
forbade drunkenness in the sanctuary....
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.—
1 Samuel 1:13. “SHE SPAKE IN HER HEART.” Prayer is almost always
oral in the East, even in public (_Kitto_).
1 Samuel 1:14. “PUT AWAY THY WINE FROM THEE,” _i.e._, sle...
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This book presents the history, the personal history of Samuel who was
the last of the Judges. It ushers in the beginning of the period of
the kings in the children of Israel, or among the children of...
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Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 4:31; Job 11:14; Job 22:23; Job 8:2;...