1 Samuel 1:24

_AND WHEN SHE HAD WEANED HIM, SHE TOOK HIM UP WITH HER, WITH THREE BULLOCKS, AND ONE EPHAH OF FLOUR, AND A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IN SHILOH: AND THE CHILD WAS YOUNG._ She took him up with her, with three bullocks, х_ BªPAARIYM_ (H6499), with bullocks (a word used, with few exceptions, only of bullocks for sacrifice); Septuagint, en moschoo trietizonti, with a bullock or calf of three years old, which is probably the true rendering (cf. 1 Samuel 1:25)]. This, including the other articles enumerated here, constituted [hagigaah] the Khagigah, a festive thank-offering made by families or private individuals in connection with the Passover, but distinct from the appointed public offerings of the sanctuary. These private sacrifices or freewill offerings were often connected with the public festi

19-28 Elkanah and his family had a journey before them, and a family of children to take with them, yet they would not move till they had worshipped God together. Prayer and provender do not hinder a journey. When men are in such haste to set out upon journeys, or to engage in business, that they have not time to worship God, they are likely to proceed without his presence and blessing. Hannah, though she felt a warm regard for the courts of God's house, begged to stay at home. God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Those who are detained from public ordinances, by the nursing and tending of little children, may take comfort from this instance, and believe, that if they do that duty in a right spirit, God will graciously accept them therein. Hannah presented her child to the Lord with a grateful acknowledgment of his goodness in answer to prayer. Whatever we give to God, it is what we...

Verse 1 Samuel 1:24. _WITH THREE BULLOCKS_] The _Septuagint_, the _Syriac_, and the _Arabic_, read, _a bullock of three years old_; and this is probably correct, because we read, 1 Samuel 1:25, that they slew _eth happar, THE bullock_. We hear of no more, and we know that a _bullock_ or _heifer_ of _three years old_ was ordinarily used, see Genesis 15:9. _ONE EPHAH OF FLOUR_] Seven _gallons and a half_. _A BOTTLE OF WINE_] נבל יין _nebel yayin_, a _skin full of wine_. Their bottles for wine and fluids in general were made out of skins of goats, stripped off without being cut up; the places whence the legs w

AND WHEN SHE HAD WEANED HIM,.... At the usual time of weaning children; 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 as slain, that is, for sacrifice, the other two might be for food to entertain her family and friends with while there; or as a present to the high priest, to whose care she committed her son: AND ONE EPHAH OF FLOUR; if the bullocks were all sacrificed, three tenth deals, or three tenth parts of the ephah, went for a meat offering to each bullock, which made nine parts out of ten, and t

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)_ 2. Hannah's prayer and vow (1 Samuel 1:9) 3. The prayer answered and Samuel born (1 Samuel 1:19) 4. The child weaned and presented unto the Lord (1 Samuel 1:21) 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 Elihu (my God is He), the son of Tohu (prostration), the son of Zuph (honeycomb). They were pious generations f

SAMUEL IS BORN AND DEDICATED TO YAHWEH. The family went home and in due time a son was born to Hannah, whom she called Shemuel (Samuel), possibly, His name is God. His Name = Yahweh, _i.e._ Yahweh is God; _cf._ Elijah and Joel, which have a similar meaning. When Samuel was weaned, _i.e._ after two years at least, perhaps longer, as he is said to have ministered apparently at once, Hannah took him to Shiloh, made an offering of a bullock (LXX of 1 Samuel 1:24; _cf._ 1 Samuel 1:25); and devoted the boy to the service of Yahweh as an attendant at the Temple. Note that he was not a Levite (_cf._ 1 Samuel 1:1). Samuel has nothing to do with Sha-' al, asked; possibly the etymology because I have asked, etc.

WEANED. From. Macc. 7.27 it has been inferred that the time of weaning included the periods of nourishment and up-bringing, which would bring Samuel to the age of at least twelve years. Compare Isaac's weaning at the age of five years, and see Genesis 21:8. three bullocks. Septuagint and Syriac read "a bullock of three years". Compare 1 Samuel 1:25, and Genesis 15:9. EPHAH. See App-51. A BOTTLE. a skin bottle. and the child was young. Hebrew vehannar na. ar. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). "now the boy was. child". Note also the Figure of speech _Parenthesis._ App-6....

Samuel's infancy and dedication to Jehovah 21. _his vow_ This assumes that Elkanah as well as Hannah had made a vow. The Sept. reads "his vows and all the tithes of his land." Cp. Deuteronomy 12:11....

WITH THREE BULLOCKS— As _one bullock_ only is mentioned in the next verse, the LXX, Syriac, and Arabic, read _one bullock of three years old,_ which Houbigant approves and follows; observing, that in the 25th verse the demonstrative ה _he,_ being prefixed, particularizes _this very bullock, i.e_. of three years old. _And the child was young,_ Houbigant renders, _was yet a crying infant; puerum vagientem._...

_Samuel presented to the Lord._ 1 Samuel 1:24-28 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh: and the child _was_ young. 25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. 26 And she said, Oh my lord, _as_ thy soul liveth, my lord, I _am_ the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord. 27 For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshiped the Lord there. _31._ Why did they take a bottle of wine? 1 Samuel 1:24 The size of the offering given by E