The Message delivered to Eli

15. the doors of the house of the Lord.] As the tabernacle was closed by a curtain only, we must suppose that the doors of the enclosure in which it stood are meant. See note on 1 Samuel 1:9. We here learn incidentally the nature of the service which Samuel performed at Shiloh. He acted as a subordinate Levite. Cp. 1 Chronicles 15:23; Psalms 84:10.

Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision He naturally shrank from delivering the fatal message to one whom he loved and revered.

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