1 Samuel 1:21-28

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 1:21

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:24

And when she had weaned him ,.... At the usual time of weaning children; See Gill on 1 Samuel 1:23 some refer this not only to the milk of the breast, from which he was weaned, but to such food as was common to children, and so supposes him grown up to nine or ten years of age: she took him up with her ; to the tabernacle at Shiloh, at a yearly festival: with three bullocks; for three sorts of offerings, burnt offering, sin offering, and peace offering; or since one only is spoken of... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:26

And she said, O my lord ,.... According to the Targum, it is a supplication or request, I beseech thee, my lord; that is, to look upon her son, and take him under his care as his disciple or scholar, to instruct him in the law of God, and enter him into his service; to which Eli might be very backward and indifferent, and even treat it with some degree of contempt, that such a young Levite should be brought to him, when the soonest the Levites were admitted was at twenty five years of age: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:27

For this child I prayed ,.... Which she now had in her hand, and was presenting to Eli: and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him ; and which he also desired might be granted her, or foretold that it would be, 1 Samuel 1:17 though perhaps he knew not then particularly what it was she asked; nor did she acquaint him with it at parting, as she now did, having obtained of the Lord what she was so solicitous for, and now makes mention of with thankfulness. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:28

Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ,.... To be employed in his service, not for a few days, months, or years, but for his whole life. The Targum is,"I have delivered him, that he may minister before the Lord;'as she had received him front him as an answer of prayer, she gave him up to him again according to her vow: as long as he liveth he shall be lent unto the Lord, or as the Targum,"all the days that he lives he shall be ministering before the Lord;' or "all the days he shall be... 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

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