1 Samuel 1:27-28 NIV

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 1:28

1 Samuel 1:28. Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord, &c.— Therefore also I have given him, according to my petition, unto the Lord, for as long as I promised in my petition to give him unto the Lord, &c. Waterland. This version of Dr. Waterland's seems perfectly conformable to the original; from a survey of which it appears evident, that Hannah herein refers to the petition which she made for a son, to whom also she gave a name agreeable to this petition. The Vulgate, Syriac, and... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

1. Hannah’s deliverance ch. 1"1 Samuel 1 is presented as a conventional birth narrative which moves from barrenness to birth. Laid over that plot is a second rhetorical strategy which moves from complaint to thanksgiving. With the use of this second strategy, the birth narrative is transposed and becomes an intentional beginning point for the larger Samuel-Saul-David narrative. Hannah’s story begins in utter helplessness (silence); it anticipates Israel’s royal narrative which also begins in... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:21-28

The parents’ thanksgiving 1:21-28a"Scenes 3 [1 Samuel 1:19-20] and 4 [1 Samuel 1:21-28 a] are a pair, not unlike the pairing of 1 [1 Samuel 1:3-8] and 2 [1 Samuel 1:9-19]. They are the two scenes of resolution. . . . These two scenes are concerned not with the birth, but with Hannah coming to terms with the reality of Yahweh. She is portrayed as the one who is needy, trustful, submissive, and grateful. She is a model of fidelity." [Note: Ibid., p. 39.] The Mosaic Law required an offering to God... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:28

The beginning of Samuel’s worship 1:28b"The future of the story now to be told in I and II Samuel concerns not only the newly born son, but the rule of Yahweh to whom laments are addressed and thanksgiving uttered. No wonder the narrative ends with yielding, grateful, trusting worship." [Note: Brueggemann, p. 39.] The "he" who worshipped before the Lord (1 Samuel 1:28) may refer to Elkanah, the leader of the family and the main man in the context. It might also refer to Eli to whom Hannah was... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

The Birth of SamuelHannah, 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 Jehovah.1. Ramathaim-zophim] Ramathaim (’double height’) probably denotes the district in which Ramah (’height’) was the chief town. It was at Ramah that Samuel was born, lived, laboured, died, and was buried. As Ramah was a common name in a hilly country like Palestine, Zophim is here added to denote... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Samuel 1:28

(28) I have lent him to the Lord.—The rendering of the Hebrew here, “I have lent,” and in Exodus 12:36, is false. The translation should run: “Therefore I also make him one asked of the Lord; all the days that he liveth he is asked of the Lord.” The sense is: “The Lord gave him to me, and now I have returned him whom I obtained by prayer to the Lord, as one asked or demanded.”And he worshipped the Lord there.—“He,” that is, the boy Samuel: thus putting his own child-seal to his mother’s gift of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Samuel the Seer In Samuel we have a deep stretch of condescension God in communion with the life of a child. I. Was he a miracle this little Samuel? No in the view characteristic of the Bible he is the real and normal aspect of humanity. All seers of God's kingdoms have seen it by the light of their childhood. We do not drop our childhood when we become men, we carry it with us into the life of men. Every sage bears within his bosom a little Samuel an instinctive child life which concludes... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-28

CHAPTER II.HANNAH’S FAITH REWARDED.1 Samuel 1:19-28.IN all the transactions recorded in these verse, we see in Hannah the directing and regulating power of the family; while Elkanah appears acquiescing cordially in all that she proposes, and devoutly seconding her great act of consecration, - the surrender of Samuel to the perpetual service of God. For a moment it might be thought that Hannah assumed a place that hardly belonged to her; that she became the leader and director in the house,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

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 1:1-8 ) 2. Hannah’s prayer and vow (1 Samuel 1:9-18 ) 3. The prayer answered and Samuel born (1 Samuel 1:19-20 ) 4. The child weaned and presented unto the Lord (1 Samuel 1:21-28 ) The descent of Samuel opens the book. The names are of striking significance. Elkanah means “acquired of God.” He was the son of Jeroham (tenderly loved), the son of... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Samuel 1:28

1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he {l} worshipped the LORD there.(l) Meaning, Eli gave thanks to God for her. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 1:28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:21-28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Samuel 1:28

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Samuel 1:28

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-28

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Samuel 1:28

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