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1 Samuel 2:19

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dress;   Hannah;   Hophni;   Parents;   Samuel;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Family;   Gifts;   Hannah;   Home;   Labour;   Love;   Maternal Love;   Mothers;   Notable Women;   Parental;   Parents;   Samuel;   Woman's;   Women;   Work, Women's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eli;   Hannah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Coat;   Dress;   Festivals, Religious;   Hannah;   Mantle;   Woman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Feasts;   Mantle;   Pentateuch;   Weaving;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arts and Crafts;   Child, Children;   Dress;   Mary;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hannah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Hophni;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abner;   Eli;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elkanah;   Hannah;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Costume;   Marriage;   Sacrifice;  

Contextual Overview

11Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy served the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli. 11 Elkana went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to the LORD before `Eli the Kohen. 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 11 Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. Now the boy was serving Yahweh in the presence of Eli the priest. 11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest. 11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy continued to serve the Lord under Eli the priest. 11 Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of Eli the priest. 11Elkanah [and his wife Hannah] returned to Ramah to his house. But the child [Samuel] served the LORD under the guidance of Eli the priest. 11 Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah. But the boy continued to attend to the service of the LORD before Eli the priest. 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house, and the childe did minister vnto the Lord before Eli the Priest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a little coat: Meil katon, "a little cloak" or surtout; an upper garment (see note on Exodus 28:4).

from year to year: 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:21, Exodus 23:14

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:7 - year

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the eretz, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the eretz."
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruite and multiplie, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, & ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth."
Genesis 1:28
God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, his mother made him a little coat,.... Suitable to his stature; this was an outer coat to wear over others, and this also was such an one as the priests wore; it is the same word that is used for the priest's robe, Exodus 28:4, and this, it is very likely, was altogether of her own spinning, and weaving, and making up; which were works women did in those times: and this Hannah did partly out of her great love to her son Samuel, and partly to lessen the expense that Eli, or the congregation, were at in the maintenance of him; and the Talmudists q observe, that a priest might wear a garment, and minister in it, if his mother made it; and they give instances of priests, Ishmael and Eleazar, for whom their mothers made garments:

and brought it to him from year to year; for it seems this was only to be worn at festivals, and not on common days; and therefore she did not leave it with him, but took it home with her, and brought it again at the returning festival:

when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice: whether at the passover, or at Pentecost, or at the feast of tabernacles; and it is very probable she came with her husband at them all, yearly; for though she was not by the law obliged thereunto, yet her religious zeal and devotion, and her great desire to see her son as often as she could, induced her to come.

q T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 25. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A little coat - The robe of the ephod was also one of the garments worn by the High Priest (see Exodus 28:31 note). This pointed mention of the ephod and the robe as worn by the youthful Samuel, seems to point to an extraordinary and irregular priesthood to which he was called by God in an age when the provisions of the Levitical law were not yet in full operation, and in which there was no impropriety in the eyes of his contemporaries, seeing that nonconformity to the whole Law was the rule rather than the exception throughout the days of the Judges.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 2:19. Made him a little coat — מעיל קטן meil katon, a little cloak, or surtout, an upper garment: probably intended to keep him from the cold, and to save his other clothes from being abused in his meaner services. It is probable that she furnished him with a new one each year, when she came up to one of the annual sacrifices.


 
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