1 Samuel 2:18 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 2:18

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

KJV

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל	u.she.mu.'El	and Samuel	H8050 →
מְשָׁרֵ֖ת	me.sha.Ret	[was] serving	H8334 →
אֶת־	'et-	with	H854 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] presence of	H6440 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
נַ֕עַר	Na.'ar	a lad	H5288 →
חָג֖וּר	cha.Gur	girded	H2296 →
אֵפ֥וֹד	'e.Fod	an ephod of	H646 →
בָּֽד׃	Bad	linen	H906 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 3:1
And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.
leads to
- Amos 8:11–12
  Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words…
- Psalms 74:9
  There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- 1 Samuel 3:21
  And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.
Through
1 Samuel 2:11
Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 3:1
  And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.
Through
2 Samuel 6:14
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
leads to
- Exodus 15:20
  Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
- Psalms 150:4
  Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
- Psalms 149:3
  Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
- Judges 11:34
  And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.