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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记上 2:21

耶和華眷顧哈拿,她再懷孕,先後生了三個兒子和兩個女兒。那孩子撒母耳在耶和華面前,漸漸長大。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hannah;   Hophni;   Samuel;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Eli;   Hannah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mary;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   Childhood;   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 - Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Triennial Cycle;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 眷 顾 哈 拿 , 他 就 怀 孕 生 了 三 个 儿 子 , 两 个 女 儿 。 那 孩 子 撒 母 耳 在 耶 和 华 面 前 渐 渐 长 大 。

Contextual Overview

11 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy continued to serve the Lord under Eli the priest. 12 Now Eli's sons were evil men; they did not care about the Lord . 13 This is what the priests would normally do to the people: Every time someone brought a sacrifice, the meat would be cooked in a pot. The priest's servant would then come carrying a fork that had three prongs. 14 He would plunge the fork into the pot or the kettle. Whatever the fork brought out of the pot belonged to the priest. But this is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices. 15 Even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come to the person offering sacrifices and say, "Give the priest some meat to roast. He won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat." 16 If the one who offered the sacrifice said, "Let the fat be burned up first as usual, and then take anything you want," the priest's servant would answer, "No, give me the meat now. If you don't, I'll take it by force." 17 The Lord saw that the sin of the servants was very great because they did not show respect for the offerings made to the Lord . 18 But Samuel obeyed the Lord . As a boy he wore a linen holy vest. 19 Every year Samuel's mother made a little coat for him and took it to him when she went with her husband to Shiloh for the sacrifice. 20 When Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, he would say, "May the Lord repay you with children through Hannah to take the place of the boy Hannah prayed for and gave back to the Lord ." Then Elkanah and Hannah would go home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

visited: 1 Samuel 1:19, 1 Samuel 1:20, Genesis 21:1, Luke 1:68

grew: 1 Samuel 2:26, 1 Samuel 3:19, Judges 13:24, Luke 1:80, Luke 2:40, Luke 2:52

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:31 - he opened Genesis 48:9 - my sons Ruth 1:6 - visited 1 Samuel 2:20 - General Psalms 107:41 - maketh Psalms 127:3 - children Ecclesiastes 6:3 - a man Luke 1:13 - thy prayer Luke 1:25 - hath

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he was asleep, a very terrible darkness came.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.
Job 4:13
It was during a nightmare when people are in deep sleep.
Job 33:15
He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night when people are in a deep sleep, lying on their beds.
Proverbs 19:15
Lazy people sleep a lot, and idle people will go hungry.
Daniel 8:18
While Gabriel was speaking, I fell into a deep sleep with my face on the ground. Then he touched me and lifted me to my feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord visited Hannah,.... In a way of mercy, approving and confirming the blessing of Eli; or rather granting the blessing he prayed for, by giving her power to conceive, bear, and bring forth children, as the following words explain it:

so that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters; whereby the prophecy of Hannah was fulfilled, 1 Samuel 2:5, and was no doubt matter of great joy to her, though of these children we nowhere else read, nor even of their names. Josephus s says, Elkanah had other sons by Hannah, and three daughters; which agrees not with the text:

and the child Samuel grew before the Lord: in age and stature, in grace and goodness, and improved much in the worship and service of God, both in the theory and practice of it; or became great with him, high in his esteem and favour, and was blessed with much of his presence, and with large gifts of his grace.

s Antiqu. l. 5. c. 10. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references. The words “before the” Lord have special reference to his residence at the tabernacle.


 
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