Hannah

How Nave’s arranged it

• (The mother of Samuel)
• Her trials and prayer, and promise1 Samuel 1:1–18
• Samuel born to, dedicated him to God, leaves him at the temple1 Samuel 1:19–28
• Her hymn of praise1 Samuel 2:1–10
• Visits Samuel at the temple from year to year1 Samuel 2:181 Samuel 2:19
• Children of1 Samuel 2:201 Samuel 2:21

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Samuel 1:1–18

   Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 1:1–181 voice

   “Ramathaim-zophim may signify “the two hills 1Sa 9:11-13 of the watchmen,” so called from its being a post from which the watchmen looked out. But since Zuph is the name of the head of the family, it is more probable that Zophin means the Zuphites, the sons of Zuph (see Zophai, 1Ch 6:26), from whom the land about Ramah was called “the land of Zuph,” 1Sa 9:

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2. 1 Samuel 1:19–28

   The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 1:19–281 voice

   “For the peace-offerings typified Christ's mediation, as well as the sin-offerings: since by this not only atonement is made for sin, but an answer to our prayers obtained. Give him - That is, consecrate him to God's service in his temple. No razor - That is, he shall be a perpetual Nazarite.

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3. 1 Samuel 2:1–10

   At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:1–102 voices

   “The song of Hannah is a prophetic Psalm. It is poetry. and it is prophecy. It takes its place by the side of the songs of Miriam, Deborah, and the Virgin Mary, as well as those of Moses, David, Hezekiah, and other Psalmists and prophets whose inspired odes have been preserved in the Bible.

   “The mercy she had received was an answer to prayer, and therefore she thought herself especially obliged to give thanks for it. What we win by prayer we may wear with comfort, and must wear with praise. Her thanksgiving is here called a prayer: Hannah prayed; for thanksgiving is an essential part of prayer.

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4. 1 Samuel 2:18

   Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:182 voices

   “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 and Levites but also to eminent persons of the people, and therefore to Samuel, who, though no Levite, was a Nazarite, from his birth.

   “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 have borrowed from the Greek χειριδωτος, a tunic, having χειριδας, i.e., sleeves that came down to, or covered, the hands. This was esteemed an effeminate garment among the Romans. See Buxtorf’s Talmudic Lexicon.

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5. 1 Samuel 2:19

   Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:191 voice

   “A little coat - The robe of the ephod was also one of the garments worn by the High Priest (see Exo 28:31 note).

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6. 1 Samuel 2:20

   And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:202 voices

   “As when Abraham had offered Isaac he received the promise of a numerous issue ( Gen. xxii. 16, 17 ), so did Hannah, when she had presented Samuel unto the Lord a living sacrifice. Note, What is lent to the Lord will certainly be repaid with interest, to our unspeakable advantage, and oftentimes in kind.

   “Eli blessed Elkanah - The natural place of this verse seems to be before the 11th; after which the 21st should come in; after the 21st, perhaps the 26th should come in. The subjects in this chapter seem very much entangled and confused by the wrong position of the verses.

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7. 1 Samuel 2:21

   So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:212 voices

   “When Hannah had once offered in the tabernacle the son whom she had vowed to God, she never took him back: for she thought it unbecoming that one who was to be a prophet should grow up in the same house with her who still desired to have other sons.

   “And the Lord visited Hannah,.... In a way of mercy, approving and confirming the blessing of Eli; or rather granting the blessing he prayed for, by giving her power to conceive, bear, and bring forth children, as the following words explain it: so that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters; whereby the prophecy of Hannah was fulfilled, 1Sa 2:5, and was no doubt matter of great joy to her, though of these children we nowhere else read, nor even of their names.

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