1 Samuel 2:21

1 Samuel 2:22 →

And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

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Interpretation

Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was called ministering to the Lord.

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This thought runs through 1 Samuel 2:20-21.

1 Samuel 2:20 1 Samuel 2:21

Glossary

Hannah Person: Favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. 1; 2).
Samuel Person: Heard of God. The peculiar circumstances connected with his birth are recorded in 1 Sam. 1:20 .