Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod, a garment for the shoulders patterned after the ephod of the high priest, worn by all priests as a sign of their calling.
But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod, a garment for the shoulders patterned after the ephod of the high priest, worn by all priests as a sign of their calling.
Verse 1 Samuel 2:18. _GIRDED WITH A LINEN EPHOD_] This the Targum translates אסיר כרדוט דבוץ _asir cardut debuts_, "Girded with a cardit of byssus, or _fine linen_." The word _cardut_ they seem to ha...
GIRDED WITH A LINEN EPHOD - This was the usual dress of the priests. It does not appear whether Levites wore an ephod properly. Possibly it was a mark of Samuel’s special dedication to the Lord’s serv...
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)....
A LINEN EPHOD. Not the High Priest's, but. simple linen robe of the ordinary priests and Levites and others. Samaritan Pentateuch 1 Samuel 22:18; 2 Samuel 6:14, Compare Exodus 28:42.
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...
GIRDED WITH A LINEN EPHOD— As the birth, appointment, and ministry of Samuel were extraordinary, he was therefore indulged with an extraordinary dress. Schachus conjectures, that from hence was derive...
_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...
_BUT SAMUEL MINISTERED BEFORE THE LORD, BEING A CHILD, GIRDED WITH A LINEN EPHOD._ But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child. This break in the historical notice of Eli's sons was made, no...
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)...
BUT SAMUEL] Throughout this section Samuel is contrasted with the profligate sons of Eli. LINEN EPHOD] the usual priestly garment (1 Samuel 22:18)....
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....
MINISTERED... BEING A CHILD. — A striking contrast is intended to be drawn here between the covetous, self-seeking ministrations of the worldly priests and the quiet service of the boy devoted by his...
וּ שְׁמוּאֵ֕ל מְשָׁרֵ֖ת אֶת ־פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה...
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...
_Ephod. It was not, therefore, peculiar to priests, 2 Kings vi. 14._...
(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 brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with he...
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...
BUT SAMUEL MINISTERED BEFORE THE LORD,.... The ministration of Samuel, though a child, is observed both before and after the account of the ill behaviour and wickedness of Eli's sons; partly to the sh...
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod. Ver. 18. _But Samuel ministered before the Lord._] He did some small charges, as setting up lights, laying up vestme...
_But Samuel ministered before the Lord_ Though he was very young, yet he carefully and faithfully performed such offices in God's tabernacle as he was capable of discharging, and did not follow the ba...
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...
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...
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...
MINISTERED, i.e. performed his ministration carefully and faithfully, not corrupting nor abusing it, as Eli's sons did. BEFORE THE LORD; in God's tabernacle; or as in God's presence, sincerely and reg...
1 Samuel 2:18 Samuel H8050 ministered H8334 (H8764) before H6440 LORD H3068 child H5288 wearing H2296 (H8803) linen
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 2:18 Samuel was a child-prophet, and that fact is pregnant with the deepest signification. That a child should have any interest in God's temple, and especially that a child should hold offi...
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...
_But Samuel ministered before the Lord._ EARLY PIETY I. the mother’s devotion. II. Samuel’s early piety. 1. It arose first from a mother’s piety. It was the mother’s act by means of which all his e...
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 2:11; 1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 3:1; 2 Samuel 6:14; Exodus 28:4
Ministered — That is, performed his ministration carefully and faithfully. Before the Lord — In God's tabernacle. Ephod — A garment used in God's service, and allowed not only to the inferior priests...