1 Samuel 1:19-23 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-28

Here is, I. The return of Elkanah and his family to their own habitation, when the days appointed for the feast were over, 1 Sam. 1:19. Observe how they improved their time at the tabernacle. Every day they were there, even that which was fixed for their journey home, they worshipped God; and they rose up early to do it. It is good to begin the day with God. Let him that is the first have the first. They had a journey before them, and a family of children to take with them, and yet they would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19

And they rose up in the morning early ,.... Partly for devotion, and partly for the sake of their journey: and worshipped before the Lord ; went up to the tabernacle, and prayed with their faces towards that part of it, the western part, where stood the ark of the Lord, the symbol of the divine Presence; and when they no doubt gave thanks for all the favours they had received there, and prayed for a safe and prosperous journey home, committing themselves to the care of divine Providence:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:20

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about, after Hannah had conceived ,.... Or, "at the revolutions of days" F2 לתקפות הימים "in revolutionibus dierum", Montanus; so Piscator. ; at the end of a year, of a complete year, as Ben Melech, from their return from Shiloh; for it might be some time after their return that she conceived; or rather the sense is, that at nine months' end, the usual time of a woman's going with child from her conception, which is the date here... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:21

And the man Elkanah, and all his house ,.... All his family, excepting Hannah, and her son Samuel; or all the men of his house, as the Targum; for only the males were obliged to appear at the three festivals: went up to Shiloh ; to the house of God there: to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice ; either the passover, to which men commonly went up with their families: see Luke 2:41 , or rather it may be what was offered at the feast of tabernacles, as Abarbinel thinks, the time... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:22

But Hannah went not up ,.... For women, though they might go if they pleased to the yearly feasts, yet they were not obliged to it; whether she went up at the time for her purification, and for the presenting and redemption of the firstborn, is not certain; some say the Levites were not obliged by that law, the perquisites of it falling to them, and so did not go up; others that she did, though it is not expressed, the Scriptures not relating all facts that were done; though by what follows... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:23

And Elkanah her husband said unto her, do what seemeth thee good ,.... He spake like a kind and indulgent husband, knowing that she would not thereby break any law of God; and it might be more for her own health, and the health of the child, to stay longer: tarry till thou have weaned him ; when he would be more fit for the journey, and to be left behind: only the Lord establish his word ; which some understand of the prophecy of Eli that God would grant her request, which being... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:20

Called his name Samuel - As she gave this name to her son because she had asked him of the Lord, the word שמואל Shemuel must be here considerably contracted; if it express this sentiment, the component parts of it are the following: מאל שאול shaul meEl , "asked of God." This name would put both the mother and the son in continual remembrance of the Divine interposition at his birth. See on 1 Samuel 1:28 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:21

The man Elkanah and all his house - He and the whole of his family, Hannah and her child excepted, who purposed not to go up to Shiloh till her son was old enough to be employed in the Divine service. And his vow - Probably he had also made some vow to the Lord on the occasion of his wife's prayer and vow; in which, from his love to her. he could not be less interested than herself. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:23

Until thou have weaned him - On the nature of this weaning, and the time in which it was usually done, the reader will be pleased to refer to the note on Genesis 21:8 . The Lord establish his word - Or, may the Lord establish his word - preserve the child, cause him to grow up, and make him a blessing to Israel. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-20

They rose up. After solemn worship early the next morning Elkanah returned to his home at Ramah, and God answered Hannah's prayer, and gave her the wished for son. She calls him Samuel, lit. Shemuel ( Numbers 34:20 ; 1 Chronicles 7:2 ), which was an ordinary Hebrew name, and means "heard of God," not "asked of God," as in the margin of the A.V. It seems to have been the mother's right to give names to her children ( Luke 1:60 ), and Hannah saw in Samuel, whom she had asked of God, a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:23

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-20

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