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3. THE FAILURE OF ELI AND HIS SONS
CHAPTER 2:12-36
_ 1. The wicked sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12)_
2. Samuel before Jehovah and Hannah blessed (1 Samuel 2:18)
3. The empty warning of Eli (1 Samuel 2:
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SAMUEL'S MINISTRY; HIS MOTHER'S YEARLY GIFT; HER OTHER CHILDREN.
1 Samuel 2:18. ephod: priestly garment (p. 101, Exodus 25:7; cf.
Exodus 25:28)....
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LOAN WHICH IS LENT. the great _gift._ Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_
for emphasis. App-6....
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_for the loan which is lent_ Better as in the margin, IN RETURN FOR
THE PETITION WHICH SHE ASKED FOR JEHOVAH: i.e. in place of Samuel, for
whom she prayed in order to dedicate him to God. Cp. 1 Samuel...
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_Moreover_, &c. Lit. "And Hannah used to make … and bring it to him
… And Eli used to bless … and they used to go unto his home." The
verbs are frequentative, describing an annual practice often repea...
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Samuel's ministry in the tabernacle
18. _Samuel ministered_ The writer dwells upon the contrast between
Samuel and the sons of Eli. We see the child attending upon Eli in the
sanctuary, growing before...
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_Samuel's service in the Tabernacle._ 1 Samuel 2:18-26
18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, _being_ a child, girded with
a linen ephod.
19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brough...
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_AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE, AND SAID, THE LORD GIVE THEE
SEED OF THIS WOMAN FOR THE LOAN WHICH IS LENT TO THE LORD. AND THEY
WENT UNTO THEIR OWN HOME._
Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife. Th...
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HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING. THE SIN OF ELI'S SONS
1-10. The Song of Hannah.
This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old
Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:46)...
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FOR THE LOAN WHICH IS LENT] rather, 'in return for the petition which
was made for (i.e. for the benefit of) the LORD,' i.e. in place of
Samuel, the man-child who, if born, was to be given to the LORD...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 2
HANNAH’S PRAYER
V1 Hannah prayed and said,
‘I am very happy when I think about the *Lord....
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(11-36) The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary — The
Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli — The Doom of the House of
Ithamar....
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AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE.... AND THE LORD VISITED HANNAH.
— The blessing of Eli, a blessing which soon bore its fruit in the
house of the pious couple, — his training of Samuel, and unswer...
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וּ בֵרַ֨ךְ עֵלִ֜י אֶת ־אֶלְקָנָ֣ה וְ
אֶת
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CHAPTER IV.
_ ELI'S HOUSE._
1 Samuel 2:11.
THE notices of little Samuel, that alternate in this passage with the
sad accounts of Eli and his house, are like the green spots that vary
the dull stretc...
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GROWING BEFORE THE LORD
1 Samuel 2:12
Not only were Eli's sons strangers to the power of religion in the
heart, but they had gone to great lengths of profligacy. They had
seized on a larger share of...
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We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she
set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and
troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...
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_Lent. This was in reply to what Anna had said, chap. i. 28. (Haydock)
--- God always gives back with interest. (Menochius)_...
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(20) And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And
they went unto their own home. (21) And the LORD visited Hannah,...
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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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_‘LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT’_
‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.…
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord,
and also with men.’
1 Samu...
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In the beautiful song of 1 Samuel 2 Hannah recognises this great
principle of sovereign grace, and of the power of God; that He brings
down the proud and those who trust in the flesh, and exalts the w...
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AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE,.... Not only the first time they
brought Samuel to him, and left him with him; but every year they came
to worship, as the Jewish commentators mostly interpret it...
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And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee
seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they
went unto their own home.
Ver. 20. _And Eli blessed Elkanah and...
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_Eli blessed Elkanah_, &c. This benediction given in his character of
high-priest, and that by a divine suggestion, was followed by the
desired effect, and verified what Hannah had uttered in her
prop...
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1 Hannahs song in thankefulnesse.
12 The sinne of Elies sonnes.
18 Samuels ministerie.
20 By Elies blessing, Hannah is more fruitfull.
22 Eli reprooueth his sonnes.
28 A prophecie against Elies h...
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And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife and said, The Lord give thee seed
of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord, or, instead of
the begged one, Samuel, whom she begged from the Lord, in pl...
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HANNAH BLESSED BY THE LORD...
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The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up
her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds
us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bor...
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LOAN WHICH IS LENT:
Or, petition which he asked, etc....
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11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from
a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable
of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was c...
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As their superior, and God's high priest, Eli blessed them in God's
name, and they received his blessing by faith, which made it
effectual, 1 SAMUEL 2:21. SEED, i.e. a child, or rather children, as
th...
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1 Samuel 2:20 Eli H5941 bless H1288 (H8765) Elkanah H511 wife H802 say
H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 give...
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THE CONTRASTING BEHAVIOUR OF SAMUEL AND HIS FAMILY (1 SAMUEL 2:18).
In total contrast the young Samuel, dressed similarly to a priest even
though still a child, ministered before YHWH, and continued t...
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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: Hannah's prophetic prayer. Evil sons of Eli. Samuel in the
tabernacle. The warning to Eli.
CHARACTERS: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a
prophet.
CONCLUSION: Nothing i...
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1 Samuel 2:1. _Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth._ This song is much
admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The
composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, and t...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:11 At the same time that the boy Samuel
is ministering to the Lord (vv. 1 Samuel 2:11, 1
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:18 The story returns to SAMUEL. Before,
Samuel was MINISTERING “in the presence of Eli the priest” (v. 1
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 2:18. “BUT.” The Levite-child is contrasted with the
grown-up priest” _(Wordsworth)_. “EPHOD.” “It does not appear
whether the Levites wore the ephod properly....
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EXPOSITION
SAMUEL'S MINISTRATIONS AT SHILOH (1 Samuel 2:11-9).
1 SAMUEL 2:11
THE CHILD DID MINISTER. Left by his parents at Shiloh, Samuel
ministered unto the Lord; that is, certain du
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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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1 Samuel 1:27; 1 Samuel 1:28; Genesis 14:19; Genesis 27:27; Numbe