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1 Samuel 2:19 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 19
Moreover 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.1 Samuel 2:19 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:19 in context
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.
21And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificezebachproperly, a slaughterH2077 →
- broughtʻâlâhto ascend, intransitively or activelyH5927 →
- husbandʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- littleqâṭânabbreviatedH6996 →
- offerzâbachto slaughter an animalH2076 →
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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