Num 30:2, Judg 11:30-31, 35, 1Sa 1:11, Psa 66:13-14, 116:18, Pro 20:25 | 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

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

Judges 11:30-31

Ge 28:20; Nu 30:2-16; 1Sa 1:11; Ec 5:1,2,4,5

whatsoever, etc. Heb. that which cometh forth, which shallcome forth. shall surely.

Le 27:2,3,28,29; 1Sa 1:11,28; 2:18; 14:24,44; Ps 66:13,14

and I will. or, or I will, etc.{Wehäâleetheehoo ôlah,} rather, as Dr. Randolph and others contend, "and I will offer Him (or to Him, i.e., Jehovah) a burnt offering;" for {hoo} may with much more propriety be referred to the person to whom the sacrifice was to be made, than to the thing to be sacrificed. Unless understood in this way, or as the marginal reading, it must have been the vow of a heathen or a madman. If a dog, or other uncleaned animal had met him, he could not have made it a burnt offering; or if his neighbour's wife, sons, etc., his vow gave him no right over them.

Le 27:11,12; De 23:18; Ps 66:13; Isa 66:3

Judges 11:35

rent his clothes.

Ge 37:29,30,34,35; 42:36-38; 2Sa 13:30,31; 18:33; Job 1:20

have opened.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 30:2-5; Ps 15:4; Ec 5:2-6

I cannot.

21:1-7; 1Sa 14:44,45; Mt 14:7-9; Ac 23:14

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