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. Th...
HANNAH PRAYS FOR A CHILD. In her distress Hannah betook herself to the sanctuary and prayed before Yahweh, _i.e._ before the Ark, for a son. She vowed that if a son were given her, she would devote hi...
_continued praying_ Lit. "multiplied to pray," i.e. "prayed long and earnestly....
Hannah's Prayer and its answer 9. _So Hannah rose up_ Simply AND. Hannah left the feast for which she had not heart, and went to pray. _Eli the priest_ Eli belonged to the house of Ithamar Aaron's fo...
_Hannah's prayer. 1 Samuel 1:9-18_ 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord. 10 And she _wa...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE CONTINUED PRAYING BEFORE THE LORD, THAT ELI MARKED HER MOUTH._ Eli marked her mouth. The suspicion of the aged priest seems to indicate that the vice of intemperance was...
THE BIRTH OF SAMUEL Hannah, the childless wife of Elkanah, is. grieved by her childlessness, and prays for a son. Her prayer is heard, and in gratitude she consecrates her child to the service of Jeho...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION TO 1 AND 2 SAMUEL The books of 1 and 2 Samuel used to be one book. The writer wrote the book in the *Hebrew language. Many years later, m...
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CHAPTER I. _ HANNAH'S TRIAL AND TRUST._ 1 Samuel 1:1. THE prophet Samuel, like the book which bears his name, comes in as a connecting link between the Judges and the Kings of Israel. He belonged to...
THE CHILD DEDICATED TO GOD 1 Samuel 1:12 Here is a delightful specimen of secret fellowship with God, and its results. Many were coming and going in the Tabernacle-court. It was no place for private...
The first Book of Samuel covers a period of transition in the history of the nation, dealing with the process from the judges to the kings. The condition of the people under the Judges, as we have see...
_Prayers, out of fervour; not through vain superstition and ostentation, as the Pharisees and pagans did, Matthew xxiii. 14. Christ does not condemn many, or long prayers, since he prayed whole nights...
(12) And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. (13) Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli...
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...
We find then, in the beginning of this book, priesthood existing before God in the original form we have mentioned. Eli, pious himself, and fearing God, maintained no order in the priestly family. The...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE CONTINUED PRAYING BEFORE THE LORD,.... Being very earnest and importunate with him to grant her request, and therefore repeated her petition, and prolonged her prayer, bein...
And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth. Ver. 12. _And she continued praying._] Heb., Multiplied to pray; as resolved not to give over her suit. Praye...
_She continued praying_ Hebrew, _multiplied to pray._ By which it appears that she said much more than is here expressed. And in the same light we must view most of the prayers and sermons of other ho...
1 Elkanah a Leuite hauing two wiues, worshippeth yeerely at Shiloh. 4 Hee cherisheth Hannah, though barren, and prouoked by Peninnah. 9 Hannah in griefe, prayeth for a childe. 12 Eli first rebuking...
THE UNHAPPINESS AND THE PRAYER OF HANNAH...
And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, in a long and urgent prayer, THAT ELL MARKED HER MOUTH, for she was evidently out in the court of the Tabernacle, not far from the altar...
From 1 Chronicles 6:22 we learn that Elkanah was a Levite of the sons of Kohath. The names of four of his forebears are recorded in verse 1, which in order of descent are Zuph (meaning "observer"); To...
CONTINUED PRAYING: _ Heb._ multiplied to pray...
9-18 Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, not only to ask good things in general, but to mention tha...
AS SHE CONTINUED PRAYING, Heb. _multiplied to pray_. By which it appears that she said much more than is here expressed. And the like you are to judge of the prayers and sermons of other holy persons...
1 Samuel 1:12 continued H7235 (H8689) praying H6419 (H8692) before H6440 LORD H3068 Eli H5941 watched H8104 ...
HANNAH'S PRAYER FOR A SON AND HOW SHE BECAME CONFIDENT THAT YHWH HAD ANSWERED HER PRAYER (1 SAMUEL 1:9). In this passage Hannah prays desperately for a son, and promises YHWH that if He will grant he...
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: The vow of Hannah and the birth of Samuel. CHARACTERS: God, Eli, Elkhanah, Hannah, Samuel, Peninnah. CONCLUSION: Prayer is heart's ease to a gracious soul. If we seek on the basis of God's...
1 Samuel 1:1. _Ramathaim-zophim._ The latter name being plural, refers to high towers; but Ramathaim was afterwards called Arimathea, the town of Joseph the ruler, twenty miles from Jerusalem. But Zup...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 1 Samuel 1:13. “SHE SPAKE IN HER HEART.” Prayer is almost always oral in the East, even in public (_Kitto_). 1 Samuel 1:14. “PUT AWAY THY WINE FROM THEE,” _i.e._, sle...
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 Thessalonians 5:17; Colossians 4:2; Ephesians 6:18; James 5:16;...
Continued — Heb. multiplied to pray. By which it appears that she said much more than is here expressed. And the like you are to judge of the prayers and sermons of other holy persons recorded in scri...