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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...
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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...
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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:
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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)....
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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.
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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)...
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BUT SAMUEL] Throughout this section Samuel is contrasted with the
profligate sons of Eli. LINEN EPHOD] the usual priestly garment (1
Samuel 22:18)....
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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....
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(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....
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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...
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וּ שְׁמוּאֵ֕ל מְשָׁרֵ֖ת אֶת ־פְּנֵ֣י
יְהוָ֑ה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Ephod. It was not, therefore, peculiar to priests, 2 Kings vi. 14._...
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(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...
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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...
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_‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HANNAH BLESSED BY THE LORD...
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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 callin...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:18 Samuel H8050 ministered H8334 (H8764) before H6440 LORD
H3068 child H5288 wearing H2296 (H8803) linen
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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
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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....
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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
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:11; 1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 3:1; 2 Samuel 6:14; Exodus
28:4
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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...