George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Samuel 2:20
Lent. This was in reply to what Anna had said, chap. i. 28. (Haydock) --- God always gives back with interest. (Menochius)
Lent. This was in reply to what Anna had said, chap. i. 28. (Haydock) --- God always gives back with interest. (Menochius)
Verse 1 Samuel 2:20. _ELI BLESSED ELKANAH_] The natural place of this verse seems to be before the 11th; after which the 21st should come in; after the 21st, perhaps the 26th should come in. 1 Samuel...
3. THE FAILURE OF ELI AND HIS SONS CHAPTER 2:12-36 _ 1. The wicked sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12)_ 2. Samuel before Jehovah and Hannah blessed (1 Samuel 2:18) 3. The empty warning of Eli (1 Samuel 2:
SAMUEL'S MINISTRY; HIS MOTHER'S YEARLY GIFT; HER OTHER CHILDREN. 1 Samuel 2:18. ephod: priestly garment (p. 101, Exodus 25:7; cf. Exodus 25:28)....
LOAN WHICH IS LENT. the great _gift._ Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ for emphasis. App-6....
Samuel's ministry in the tabernacle 18. _Samuel ministered_ The writer dwells upon the contrast between Samuel and the sons of Eli. We see the child attending upon Eli in the sanctuary, growing before...
_Moreover_, &c. Lit. "And Hannah used to make … and bring it to him … And Eli used to bless … and they used to go unto his home." The verbs are frequentative, describing an annual practice often repea...
_for the loan which is lent_ Better as in the margin, IN RETURN FOR THE PETITION WHICH SHE ASKED FOR JEHOVAH: i.e. in place of Samuel, for whom she prayed in order to dedicate him to God. Cp. 1 Samuel...
_Samuel's service in the Tabernacle._ 1 Samuel 2:18-26 18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, _being_ a child, girded with a linen ephod. 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brough...
_AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE, AND SAID, THE LORD GIVE THEE SEED OF THIS WOMAN FOR THE LOAN WHICH IS LENT TO THE LORD. AND THEY WENT UNTO THEIR OWN HOME._ Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife. Th...
HANNAH'S SONG OF THANKSGIVING. THE SIN OF ELI'S SONS 1-10. The Song of Hannah. This beautiful poem has been well called the 'Magnificat of the Old Testament.' The song of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:46)...
FOR THE LOAN WHICH IS LENT] rather, 'in return for the petition which was made for (i.e. for the benefit of) the LORD,' i.e. in place of Samuel, the man-child who, if born, was to be given to the LORD...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 HANNAH’S PRAYER V1 Hannah prayed and said, ‘I am very happy when I think about the *Lord....
(11-36) The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary — The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli — The Doom of the House of Ithamar....
AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE.... AND THE LORD VISITED HANNAH. — The blessing of Eli, a blessing which soon bore its fruit in the house of the pious couple, — his training of Samuel, and unswer...
וּ בֵרַ֨ךְ עֵלִ֜י אֶת ־אֶלְקָנָ֣ה וְ אֶת
CHAPTER IV. _ ELI'S HOUSE._ 1 Samuel 2:11. THE notices of little Samuel, that alternate in this passage with the sad accounts of Eli and his house, are like the green spots that vary the dull stretc...
GROWING BEFORE THE LORD 1 Samuel 2:12 Not only were Eli's sons strangers to the power of religion in the heart, but they had gone to great lengths of profligacy. They had seized on a larger share of...
We have the record of the song of triumph sung by Hannah, in which she set forth the might and justice of Jehovah. Thus, in the dark and troublous times, Jehovah is seen acting toward deliverance, by...
(20) And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. (21) And the LORD visited Hannah,...
The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
_‘LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT’_ ‘Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.… And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.’ 1 Samu...
In the beautiful song of 1 Samuel 2 Hannah recognises this great principle of sovereign grace, and of the power of God; that He brings down the proud and those who trust in the flesh, and exalts the w...
AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE,.... Not only the first time they brought Samuel to him, and left him with him; but every year they came to worship, as the Jewish commentators mostly interpret it...
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. Ver. 20. _And Eli blessed Elkanah and...
_Eli blessed Elkanah_, &c. This benediction given in his character of high-priest, and that by a divine suggestion, was followed by the desired effect, and verified what Hannah had uttered in her prop...
1 Hannahs song in thankefulnesse. 12 The sinne of Elies sonnes. 18 Samuels ministerie. 20 By Elies blessing, Hannah is more fruitfull. 22 Eli reprooueth his sonnes. 28 A prophecie against Elies h...
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife and said, The Lord give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the Lord, or, instead of the begged one, Samuel, whom she begged from the Lord, in pl...
HANNAH BLESSED BY THE LORD...
The rejoicing prayer of Hannah is now uttered AFTER she has given up her child. The prayer of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, reminds us of this one, though hers was spoken before he child was bor...
LOAN WHICH IS LENT: Or, petition which he asked, etc....
11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was c...
As their superior, and God's high priest, Eli blessed them in God's name, and they received his blessing by faith, which made it effectual, 1 SAMUEL 2:21. SEED, i.e. a child, or rather children, as th...
1 Samuel 2:20 Eli H5941 bless H1288 (H8765) Elkanah H511 wife H802 say H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 give...
THE CONTRASTING BEHAVIOUR OF SAMUEL AND HIS FAMILY (1 SAMUEL 2:18). In total contrast the young Samuel, dressed similarly to a priest even though still a child, ministered before YHWH, and continued t...
1 SAMUEL 1-4 _(with Judges 21:16)_ I. With all his virtues and natural advantages Eli had one great fault. He was a good man of the easy type; the kind of man who makes an admirable servant, who does...
CONTENTS: Hannah's prophetic prayer. Evil sons of Eli. Samuel in the tabernacle. The warning to Eli. CHARACTERS: God, Hannah, Eli, Samuel, Hophni, Phinehas, Elkanah, a prophet. CONCLUSION: Nothing i...
1 Samuel 2:1. _Hannah said, my heart rejoiceth._ This song is much admired: the lines form a constellation of appropriate beauties. The composition is perfect in its kind. The phrases are short, and t...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:11 At the same time that the boy Samuel is ministering to the Lord (vv. 1 Samuel 2:11, 1
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 2:18 The story returns to SAMUEL. Before, Samuel was MINISTERING “in the presence of Eli the priest” (v. 1
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 2:18. “BUT.” The Levite-child is contrasted with the grown-up priest” _(Wordsworth)_. “EPHOD.” “It does not appear whether the Levites wore the ephod properly....
EXPOSITION SAMUEL'S MINISTRATIONS AT SHILOH (1 Samuel 2:11-9). 1 SAMUEL 2:11 THE CHILD DID MINISTER. Left by his parents at Shiloh, Samuel ministered unto the Lord; that is, certain du
This book presents the history, the personal history of Samuel who was the last of the Judges. It ushers in the beginning of the period of the kings in the children of Israel, or among the children of...
1 Samuel 1:27; 1 Samuel 1:28; Genesis 14:19; Genesis 27:27; Numbe