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1 Samuel 2:18 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 18
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.1 Samuel 2:18 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:18 in context
16And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
17Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
19Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ministeredshârathto attend as a menial or worshipperH8334 →
- SamuelShᵉmûwʼêlShemuel, the name of three IsraelitesH8050 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- girdedchâgarto gird onH2296 →
- childnaʻara boy , from the age of infancy to adolescenceH5288 →
- linenbadflaxen thread or yarnH906 →
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In these verses we have the good character and posture of Elkanah's family, and the bad character and posture of Eli's family. The account of these two is observably interwoven throughout this whole paragraph, as if the historian intended to set the one over against the other, that they might set off one another.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-26