1 Samuel 3:1-10

1 Samuel 3:1 to 1 Samuel 4:1 a... all Israel. Another section of the Life of Samuel (see above, p. 273).

1 Samuel 3:1. Call of Samuel.

1 Samuel 3:1. child: na-' ar, anything from a baby to a man of forty. precious... open, rather rare. frequent (mg.).

1 Samuel 3:2. in the temple, etc.: Samuel slept in the shrine where the Ark was, in order to protect it. Contrast this with the later arrangement which placed the Ark in the Holy of Holies, only entered by the high priest one day in the year. temple: a building, not a tent; note the door in 1 Samuel 3:15.

1 Samuel 3:3. ark: -' aron. Ark in Noah's ark and the ark in the bulrushes is tebhah.

1 Samuel 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:6. Samuel: LXX Samuel, Samuel, as in 1 Samuel 3:10.

1 Samuel 3:7. know the Lord: explained by the rest of the verse.

1 Samuel 3:10. came and stood: the writer is still in the primitive stage in which God is thought of as a glorified man.