Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
David Guzik commentary on 1 Samuel 1, where Hannah cries out to God in prayer and God answers by giving her a son - Samuel.
The story of Samson introduces him as a child of promise, Judg 13. But the story of Samuel introduces him as a child of prayer. Samson's birth was foretold by an angel to his mother; Samuel was asked of God by his mother. Both together intimate what wonders are produced by the word and prayer.
Study 1 Samuel 1 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning.
a. A certain man: At this strategic time and place, God began His plan as He almost always does — with a person He will use. God can do His work by Himself, or by angels, or by any number of other means; but His normal method is to find a certain man and work through him. b.
1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 1. Elkanah goeth yearly up to the feast at Shiloh with his two wives: Hannah is barren; Peninnah upbraideth her, 1Sa 1:1-6. Hannah prayeth fervently to the Lord for a son; promising to separate him a Nazarite unto God, 1Sa 1:7-12. Eli thinking her drunk rebuketh her; upon her answer, blesseth her, 1Sa 1:13-18.
In 1 Chronicles 29:29 the following statement concerning contemporary literature occurs: “Now the acts of David the king, behold they are written in the acts of Samuel the seer (the Roëh), and in the acts of Nathan the prophet (the Nabi), and in the acts of Gad the seer (the Chozeh) .”.
Verses 1-8. ELKANAH AND HIS TWO WIVES. "There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no ...
