Num 30:2-16, 1Sa 1:11, 24-28, Ecc 5:4-6 | TSK | STEP | If a man.The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord. vow a vow. swear. to bind. break. Heb. profane. he shall do.

Numbers 30:2-16

If a man.The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord.

vow a vow.

21:2; Ge 28:20-22; Le 27:2-34; De 23:21,22; Jud 11:11,30,31,35,36

Jud 11:39; Ps 15:3; 56:12; 76:11; 119:106; Pr 20:25

swear.

Ex 20:7; Le 5:4; Mt 5:33,34; 14:7-9; Ac 23:12; 2Co 1:23; 9:9-11

to bind.

3,4,10; Mt 23:16,18; *Gr:

Ac 23:12,14,21

break. Heb. profane.

Ps 55:20; *marg:

he shall do.

Job 22:27; Ps 22:25; 50:14; 66:13,14; 116:14,18; Ec 5:4,5; Na 1:15

Ho 6:6; Mt 15:4-6; Mr 7:10-13; Eph 6:1

she vowed. Heb. her vows were upon her.

Ps 56:12

Ge 3:16; 1Co 7:4; 14:34; Eph 5:22-24

Le 21:7; Lu 2:37; Ro 7:2

her husband hath made.

1Co 11:3

and the Lord.

5,8; 15:25,28

and every.

1Co 11:3,9; 1Pe 3:1-6

to afflict.

29:7; Le 16:29; 23:27,32; Ezr 8:21; Ps 35:13; Isa 58:5; 1Co 7:5

he shall bear.

5,8,12; Le 5:1; Ga 3:28

5:29,30; Le 11:46,47; 13:59; 14:54-57; 15:32,33

1 Samuel 1:11

vowed.

Ge 28:20; Nu 21:2; 30:3-8; Jud 11:30; Ec 5:4

look.

Ge 29:32; Ex 4:31; 2Sa 16:12; Ps 25:18

remember.

19; Ge 8:1; 30:22; Ps 132:1,2

a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.

there.

Nu 6:5; Jud 13:5

1 Samuel 1:24-28

A.M. 2839. B.C. 1165. An. Ex. Is. 326. she took.

Nu 15:9,10; De 12:5,6,11; 16:16

three bullocks.The LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, read "a bullock of three years old;" which is probably correct, as we read (ver. 25) that they slew {eth happar,} "the bullock."

house.

4:3,4; Jos 18:1

brought.

Lu 2:22; 18:15,16

as thy soul.

17:55; 20:3; Ge 42:15; 2Sa 11:11; 14:19; 2Ki 2:2,4,6; 4:30

For this.

11-13; Mt 7:7

and the Lord.

Ps 66:19; 116:1-5; 118:5; 1Jo 5:15

lent him. or, returned him, whom I have obtained bypetition, to the Lord. The word {hishilteehoo}, "I have lent him," is the {Hiphil} conjugation of {shuäl,} "he asked," (ver. 27,) and refers to the name of Samuel.

he shall be. or, he whom I have obtained by petition shallbe returned. he worshipped.

Ge 24:26,48,52; 2Ti 3:15