Gen 17:7, 10-14, Num 14:31, Deu 4:37, 29:11-12, 1Sa 1:11, 22, 27-28 | TSK | STEP

enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath.

14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29

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 1:22

then.

De 16:16; Lu 2:22,41,42

and there.

11,28; 2:11,18; 3:1; Ps 23:6; 27:4

for ever.

Ex 21:6; Le 25:23; Jos 4:7; Ps 110:4; Isa 9:7

1 Samuel 1:27-28

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