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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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ELI REMONSTRATES WITH HIS SONS.
1 Samuel 2:22. and. how that. meeting: should probably be omitted with
LXX (_cf._ Exodus 38:8). TENT OF MEETING: see Exodus 33:7....
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FOR. Hebrew has the disjunctive accent on this word (Great _Telisha),_
emphasising the guilt of Hophni and Phinehas as (1). public scandal (1
Samuel 2:23); (2). cause of stumbling (1 Samuel 2:24); (3)...
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Eli's fruitless expostulations with his sons
22. _heard_ " USED TO HEAR all that his sons WERE DOING," constantly
and habitually.
_the women that assembled_ Rather, THAT SERVED. The word is applied t...
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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 HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHY DO YE SUCH THINGS? FOR I HEAR OF YOUR EVIL
DEALINGS BY ALL THIS PEOPLE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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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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YE MAKE THE LORD’S PEOPLE TO TRANSGRESS. — The life led by the
priests publicly in the sanctuary, with their evident scornful
unbelief in the divinely established holy ordinances on the one hand,
and...
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אַ֖ל בָּנָ֑י כִּ֠י לֹֽוא ־טֹובָ֤ה הַ
שְּׁמֻעָ
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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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THE PENALTY OF DISHONORING GOD
1 Samuel 2:22
Eli was held responsible for the excesses of his sons. He was a mild
and gentle old man. But there are times when mildness and gentleness
are out of place...
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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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(22) Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation. (23) And he said unto them...
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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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NAY, MY SONS,.... This seems to be too soft and smooth an appellation,
too kind and endearing, considering the offence they were guilty of,
and were now reproving for; rather they deserved to be calle...
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Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the
LORD'S people to transgress.
Ver. 24. _Nay, my sons._] Too mild all along. He should have said as
Isaiah 57:3,4, "Draw near hither, y...
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_And he said, Why do ye_ do _such things?_ He reproved them, but far
too gently, as these and the following words manifest. This might
proceed partly from the coldness of old age, but it arose chiefly...
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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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Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lord's
people to transgress, for many took offense and followed the evil
example set before them....
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THE PROPHECY AGAINST ELI...
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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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TRANSGRESS:
Or, cry out...
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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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Words too mild for such diabolical actions. YE MAKE THE LORD'S PEOPLE
TO TRANSGRESS; either,
1. The women that by your instigation were drawn to folly. Or,
2. Others who are easily brought to follow...
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1 Samuel 2:24 sons H1121 good H2896 report H8052 hear H8085 (H8802)
LORDS H3068 people H5971 transgress H5674 ...
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ELI'S SONS BECOME WORSE AND WORSE UNTIL THEY HAVE ‘SINNED UNTO
DEATH' (1 SAMUEL 2:22).
While Samuel was growing and developing, Eli's sons were shrivelling
and disintegrating. By this time Eli was an...
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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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_Nay, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear._
WEAKNESS IS WICKEDNESS
It does not often occur to us what shame and guilt belong to mortal
vacillation and weakness. Too often a man’s weakness i...
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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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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 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Samuel 2:17; 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Ti