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撒母耳记上 1:22

哈拿卻沒有上去,因為她對丈夫說:“等孩子斷了奶,我才帶他去朝見耶和華。他要永遠住在那裡。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Dedication;   Hannah;   Samuel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Devout Mothers;   Godly Ancestry;   Home;   Mothers;   Religion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peninnah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Child;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jephthah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nurse;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elkanah ;   Hannah ;   Shiloh ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Child;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Valuation;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
哈 拿 却 没 有 上 去 , 对 丈 夫 说 : 等 孩 子 断 了 奶 , 我 便 带 他 上 去 朝 见 耶 和 华 , 使 他 永 远 住 在 那 里 。

Contextual Overview

19 Early the next morning Elkanah's family got up and worshiped the Lord . Then they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had sexual relations with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. 20 So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him." 21 Every year Elkanah went with his whole family to Shiloh to offer sacrifices and to keep the promise he had made to God. 22 But one time Hannah did not go with him. She told him, "When the boy is old enough to eat solid food, I will take him to Shiloh. Then I will give him to the Lord , and he will always live there." 23 Elkanah, Hannah's husband, said to her, "Do what you think is best. You may stay home until the boy is old enough to eat. May the Lord do what you have said." So Hannah stayed at home to nurse her son until he was old enough to eat. 24 When Samuel was old enough to eat, Hannah took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh, along with a three-year-old bull, one-half bushel of flour, and a leather bag filled with wine. 25 After they had killed the bull for the sacrifice, Hannah brought Samuel to Eli. 26 She said to Eli, "As surely as you live, sir, I am the same woman who stood near you praying to the Lord . 27 I prayed for this child, and the Lord answered my prayer and gave him to me. 28 Now I give him back to the Lord . He will belong to the Lord all his life." And he worshiped the Lord there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

then: Deuteronomy 16:16, Luke 2:22, Luke 2:41, Luke 2:42

and there: 1 Samuel 1:11, 1 Samuel 1:28, 1 Samuel 2:11, 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 3:1, Psalms 23:6, Psalms 27:4

for ever: Exodus 21:6, Leviticus 25:23, Joshua 4:7, Psalms 110:4, Isaiah 9:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:8 - and was Deuteronomy 15:17 - for ever Judges 11:39 - to his vow Matthew 19:14 - Suffer Mark 10:14 - Suffer

Cross-References

Genesis 1:13
Evening passed, and morning came. This was the third day.
Genesis 1:14
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night. These lights will be used for signs, seasons, days, and years.
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 8:17
Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."
Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.
Genesis 30:27
Laban said to him, "If I have pleased you, please stay. I know the Lord has blessed me because of you.
Genesis 30:30
When I came, you had little, but now you have much. Every time I did something for you, the Lord blessed you. But when will I be able to do something for my own family?"
Genesis 35:11
God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.
Leviticus 26:9
"‘Then I will show kindness to you and let you have many children; I will keep my agreement with you.
Job 40:15
"Look at Behemoth, which I made just as I made you. It eats grass like an ox.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Hannah went not up,.... For women, though they might go if they pleased to the yearly feasts, yet they were not obliged to it; whether she went up at the time for her purification, and for the presenting and redemption of the firstborn, is not certain; some say the Levites were not obliged by that law, the perquisites of it falling to them, and so did not go up; others that she did, though it is not expressed, the Scriptures not relating all facts that were done; though by what follows it looks as if she did not:

for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned: which, according to Jarchi, was at the end of twenty two months; but others say at the end of twenty four months, or two years, as Kimchi and Ben Melech; and sometimes a child was three years old before it was weaned, and sometimes longer, which very probably was the case here; :-. Comestor d observes, there was a three fold weaning of children in old times; the first from their mother's milk, when three years old; the second from their tender age, and care of a dry nurse, when seven years old; the third from childish manners, when at twelve years of age; and that it is this last and metaphorical weaning which is here meant, when Samuel was twelve years of age, and fit to serve in the temple; but the proper sense is best, since she is said to bring him when weaned: her reason for it seems to be this, because had she went up with her sucking child, she must have brought him back again, since he would not be fit to be left behind, and would be entirely incapable of any kind of service in the sanctuary; and according to the nature of her vow, she could not think of bringing him back again, after she had once entered him there:

and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord; and minister in the service of the sanctuary in what might be suitable to his age; there and then she would present him, and give him up to the Lord, as she had promised she would:

and there abide for ever; that is, as long as he lived; for her vow was that he should be a Nazarite all the days of his life, and be separated to the service of God as long as he had a being in the world.

d Apud Weemse's Observ. Nat. c. 18. p. 76.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Until the child be weaned - Hebrew mothers, as elsewhere in the East, usually suckled their children until the age of two complete years, sometimes until the age of three.


 
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