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1 Samuel 2:26 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 2 · verse 26
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.1 Samuel 2:26 · King James Version
1 Samuel 2:26 in context
24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.
25If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.
26And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
27And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?
28And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
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Key words (Strong's)
- SamuelShᵉmûwʼêlShemuel, the name of three IsraelitesH8050 →
- favourṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- childnaʻara boy , from the age of infancy to adolescenceH5288 →
- grewgâdêllargeH1432 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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