Lev 27:2-3, 28-29, 1Sa 1:11, 28, 2:18, 14:24, 44, Psa 66:13-14 | TSK | STEP | When. a singular vow.A vow is a religious promise made to God, for the most part with prayer, and paid with thanksgiving. Vows were either of abstinence (Nu 6:30), or the devoting of something to the Lord, as sacrifices (Le 7:16,) or the value of persons, beasts, houses, or lands, concerning which the law is here given. A man might vow or devote himself, his children, his domestics, his cattle, his goods, etc.; and respecting the redemption of all these, rules are laid down in this chapter. But if, after consecrating these things, he refused to redeem them, they then became the Lord's property forever. The persons continued all their lives devoted to the sanctuary, the goods were sold for the profit of the temple, or the priests; and the animals, if clean, were offered in sacrifice; and if not proper for sacrifice, were sold, and the proceeds devoted to sacred uses. This is a general view of the different laws relative to vows, mentioned in this chapter.

Leviticus 27:2-3

When.

Ge 28:20-22; Nu 6:2; 21:2; De 23:21-23; Jud 11:30,31,39

a singular vow.A vow is a religious promise made to God, for the most part with prayer, and paid with thanksgiving. Vows were either of abstinence (Nu 6:30), or the devoting of something to the Lord, as sacrifices (Le 7:16,) or the value of persons, beasts, houses, or lands, concerning which the law is here given. A man might vow or devote himself, his children, his domestics, his cattle, his goods, etc.; and respecting the redemption of all these, rules are laid down in this chapter. But if, after consecrating these things, he refused to redeem them, they then became the Lord's property forever. The persons continued all their lives devoted to the sanctuary, the goods were sold for the profit of the temple, or the priests; and the animals, if clean, were offered in sacrifice; and if not proper for sacrifice, were sold, and the proceeds devoted to sacred uses. This is a general view of the different laws relative to vows, mentioned in this chapter.

Ec 5:4,5

And thy estimation.

14; 5:15; 6:6; Nu 18:16; 2Ki 12:4; *marg:

fifty shekels.i.e, At three shillings each, 7£. 10s. sterling.

after the.

25; Ex 30:13

Leviticus 27:28-29

no devoted.This is the {cherem,} the absolute, irredeemable grant to God.

21; Ex 22:20; Nu 21:2,3; De 7:1,2; 13:15,16; 20:16,17; 25:19

Jos 6:17-19,26; 7:1,11-13,25; Jud 11:30,31; 21:5,11,18

1Sa 14:24-28,38-45; 15:3,18,32,33; Mt 25:41; Ac 23:12-14; Ro 9:3

1Co 16:22; Ga 3:10,13

None.

Nu 21:2,3; 1Sa 15:18-23

which shall be devoted.That is, either that every person devoted to the service of God shall not be redeemed, but die in that devoted state, or, that such as were devoted to death by appointment and law of God, as the Canaanites were, shall be put to death.

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 1:28

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