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1881 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 238.1 (Matthew Henry)
Elkanah and his family. (1-8) Hannah’s prayer. (9-18) Samuel, Hannah presents him to the Lord. (19-28)
1882 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 238.2 (Matthew Henry)
1 Samuel 1:1-8 Elkanah kept up his attendance at God’s altar, notwithstanding the unhappy differences in his family. If the devotions of a family prevail not …
1883 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 238.3 (Matthew Henry)
1 Samuel 1:9-18 Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, not only to …
1884 Matthew Henry’s Concise Bible Commentary, p. 238.4 (Matthew Henry)
1 Samuel 1:19-28 Elkanah and his family had a journey before them, and a family of children to take with them, yet they would not move till they had worshipped …
1885 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.1 (Matthew Henry)
The history of Samuel here begins as early as that of Samson did, even before he was born, as afterwards the history of John the Baptist and our blessed Saviour …
1886 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.2 (Matthew Henry)
We have here an account of the state of the family into which Samuel the prophet was born. His father’s name was Elkanah, a Levite, and of the family of the Kohathites …
1887 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.3 (Matthew Henry)
I. It was a devout family. All the families of Israel should be so, but Levites’ families in a particular manner. Ministers should be patterns of family religion …
1888 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.4 (Matthew Henry)
II. Yet it was a divided family, and the divisions of it carried with them both guilt and grief. Where there is piety, it is a pity but there should be unity. The joint-devotions of a family should put an end to divisions in it.
1889 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.5 (Matthew Henry)
1. The original cause of this division was Elkanah’s marrying two wives, which was a transgression of the original institution of marriage, to which our Saviour …
1890 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.6 (Matthew Henry)
2. That which followed upon this error was that the two wives could not agree. They had different blessings: Peninnah, like Leah, was fruitful and had many children …
1891 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.7 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) Elkanah kept up his attendance at God’s altar notwithstanding this unhappy difference in his family, and took his wives and children with him, that, if they …
1892 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.8 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) He did all he could to encourage Hannah, and to keep up her spirits under her affliction, 1 Samuel 1:4, 1:5. At the feast he offered peace-offerings, to supplicate …
1893 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.9 (Matthew Henry)
(3.) Peninnah was extremely peevish and provoking. [1.] She upbraided Hannah with her affliction, despised her because she was barren, and gave her taunting language …
1894 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.10 (Matthew Henry)
(4.) Hannah (poor woman) could not hear the provocation: She wept, and did not eat, 1 Samuel 1:7. It made her uneasy to herself and to all her relations. She did not eat …
1895 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.11 (Matthew Henry)
(5.) Elkanah said what he could to her to comfort her. She did not upbraid him with his unkindness in marrying another wife as Sarah did, nor did she render to Peninnah …
1896 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.12 (Matthew Henry)
Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof.
1897 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.13 (Matthew Henry)
I. It brought her to her meat. She ate and drank, 1 Samuel 1:9. She did not harden herself in sorrow, nor grow sullen when she was reproved for it; but, when she perceived …
1898 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.14 (Matthew Henry)
II. It brought her to her prayers. It put her upon considering, “Do I well to be angry? Do I well to fret? What good does it do me? Instead of binding the burden thus upon …
1899 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.15 (Matthew Henry)
1. The warm and lively devotion there was in it, which appeared in several instances, for our direction in prayer. (1.) She improved the present grief and trouble …
1900 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 238.16 (Matthew Henry)
2. The hard censure she fell under for it. Eli was now high priest, and judge in Israel; he sat upon a seat in the temple, to oversee what was done there, 1 Samuel 1:9 …