1 Samuel 1:25 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 1:25

And they slew a bullock ,.... One of the three Hannah brought, unless the singular is put for the plural, and so all three were slain, some for sacrifice, and some for food perhaps; or if only one was slain, it might be offered as a sacrifice previous to the presentation of Samuel; or else was made a present of to Eli, at the introduction of Samuel to him, as follows: and brought the child to Eli : to be under his care, to he instructed and trained up by him in the service of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:19-28

Conjugal sympathy. The facts are— 1 . Hannah, having independently fixed the future of her offspring, reveals the vow to her husband. 2 . Elkanah acquiesces in her vow, and allows her will in respect of time and method of perfecting it. 3 . A united and solemn surrender of Samuel to his life work. I. QUALIFIED WIFELY INDEPENDENCE . Although Elkanah knew his wife's great sorrow, yet in the matters connected with its removal and in the subsequent transactions she... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 1:25-27

1 Samuel 1:25-27. They slew a bullock The three bullocks mentioned 1 Samuel 1:22, the singular number being put for the plural, which is frequent. As thy soul liveth As surely as thou livest. Which asseveration she thought necessary, because this was some years after the fact which she here mentions. For this child I prayed She had told him nothing of what she prayed for when he reproved her; but only, in general, that she was extremely afflicted for want of something, which she then... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:1-28

1:1-7:17 ISRAEL UNDER ELI AND UNDER SAMUELBirth of Samuel (1:1-2:11)Elkanah was a Levite who lived in the tribal territory of Ephraim (1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:33-38). Each year he took his family to the town of Shiloh to offer sacrifices to the Lord. (Since the time of Joshua, Shiloh had been the central place of worship in Israel; Joshua 18:1,Joshua 18:10; Judges 18:31.) According to the regulations for certain sacrifices, the offerer, after offering his sacrifice, received back some of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Samuel 1:25

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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

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 1:24-25

(24, 25) With three bullocks . . . And they slew a bullock.—There at first sight seems a discrepancy here, and the LXX. translators seem to have felt it, for they read, instead of “three bullocks,” “a bullock of three years old.” The true explanation, however, is that the one bullock alluded to in 1 Samuel 1:25 was the burnt offering by which the child was consecrated to the Lord. The other two were the yearly festival offering, the presentation of which being the usual gift, the chronicler did... read more