1 Samuel 2:10

1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 Samuel 2:10 The LORD will judge. See Psalms 96:10. The ends of the earth describes God’s uniqueness, majesty, and authority (compare Psalms 67:7; Psalms 98:3; Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 52:10; Micah 5:4; Zechariah 9:10). Since there was currently no king in Israel, it is possible that the last two lines of this verse are a comment by the writer of 1 Samuel 1:1 rather than part of Hannah’s actual prayer. The law made provision for a king, however, and the idea of kingship was well known in Israel even before it was practiced (Judges 9:6; 1 Samuel 8:1), so these could have been Hannah’s words. The phrase his anointed appears here for the first time in the Bible. In Samuel, it usually refers to a king. The Hebrew word for “anointed” can also be translated “Messiah.”