TSK - 1 SAMUEL 3

  1  How the word of the Lord was first revealed to Samuel.
11  God tells Samuel the destruction of Eli's house.
15  Samuel, though loath, tells Eli the vision.
19  Samuel grows in credit.


VERSE 1
- the child.
   * :15; 2:11,18
- the word.
   * :21 Ps 74:9 Isa 13:12 Am 8:11,12


VERSE 2 
 - his eyes.
   * 1Sa 2:22; 4:15 Ge 27:1; 48:19 Ps 90:10 Ec 12:3


VERSE 3 
 - ere.
  Before sun-rise:  for it is probable the lamps were
  extinguished before the rising of the sun; see the Parallel
  Passages.

- the lamp.
   * Ex 27:20,21; 30:7,8 Le 24:2-4 2Ch 13:11
- the temple.
   * 1Sa 1:6 Ps 5:7; 27:4; 29:9


VERSE 4 
 - called Samuel.
   * Ge 22:1 Ex 3:4 Ps 99:6 Ac 9:4 1Co 12:6-11,28 Ga 1:15,16

VERSE 5
    * :5

VERSE 6
    * 1Sa 4:16 Ge 43:29 2Sa 18:22 Mt 9:2


VERSE 7 
 - Now Samuel.
  Or, Thus did Samuel before he knew the Lord, and before the
  word of the Lord was revealed unto him.

- did not yet.
  Samuel was not destitute of the knowledge of God, in that
  sense which implies the total absence of true piety, as Eli's
  sons were; for he knew and worshipped the God of Israel:  but
  he did not know him as communicating special revelations of
  his will to him, in the manner in which he made it known to
  the prophets.

   * Jer 9:24 Ac 19:2


VERSE 8 
 - the third.
   * Job 33:14,15
  Although Samuel did not apprehend the way in which God reveals
  himself to his servants the prophets--by the "still small
  voice"--yet when this direct communication from the Almighty
  was made the third time, in a way altogether new and strange
  to him, it seems astonishing that he did not immediately
  apprehend.  Perhaps he would have been sooner aware of a
  divine revelation, had it come in a dream or a vision.  Those
  who have the greatest knowledge of divine things, should
  remember the time when they were as babes, unskilful in the
  word of righteousness.

   * 1Co 13:11,12


VERSE 9 
 - Speak.
   * Ex 20:19 Ps 85:8 Isa 6:8 Da 10:19 Ac 9:6


VERSE 10 
 - the Lord came.
  This seems to imply a visible appearance, as well as an
  audible voice.

- as at other.
   * :4-6,8
  Samuel did not now rise and run as before, when thought he Eli
  called, but lay still and listened.  All must be silent, when
  God speaks.  Observe, however, Samuel in his reply left out
  one word:  he did not say, Speak, Lord, but only Speak, for
  thy servant heareth; perhaps, as Bp. Patrick suggests, out of
  uncertainty, whether it was God that spake to him or not.
  However, by this answer way was made for the message he was
  now to receive, and Samuel was brought acquainted with the
  words of God and visions of the Almighty.


VERSE 11 
 - I will do.
   * Isa 29:14 Am 3:6,7 Hab 1:5 Ac 13:41
- both the ears.
   * 2Ki 21:12 Isa 28:19 Jer 19:3 Lu 21:26


VERSE 12 
 - I will perform.
   * 1Sa 2:27-36 Nu 23:19 Jos 23:15 Zec 1:6 Lu 21:33
- when I begin, etc.  Heb. beginning and ending.


VERSE 13 
 - For I have told him.  or, And I will tell him, etc.
   * 1Sa 2:27-30,31-36
- I will.
   * 2Ch 20:12 Eze 7:3; 18:30 Joe 3:12
- which he knoweth.
   * 1Ki 2:44 Ec 7:22 1Jo 3:20
- his sons.
   * 1Sa 2:12,17,22,23-26
- vile.  or, accursed.  restrained them not.  Heb. frowned not
  upon them.
   * 1Sa 2:23-25 1Ki 1:6 Pr 19:18; 23:13,14; 29:15 Mt 10:37


VERSE 14 
 - the iniquity.
   * 1Sa 2:25 Nu 15:30,31 Ps 51:16 Isa 22:14 Jer 7:16; 15:1 Eze 24:13
   * Heb 10:4-10,26-31


VERSE 15 
 - opened.
   * 1Sa 1:9 Mal 1:10
- Samuel.
  Samuel reverenced Eli as a father, and feared to distress him
  by shewing what God had purposed to do.  It does not appear
  that God commanded Samuel to deliver this message; he
  therefore did not attempt it till adjured by Eli.  It might be
  supposed that Samuel would have been so full of ecstasy as to
  have forgotten his ordinary service, and run amongst his
  friends to tell them of the converse he had with God in the
  night:  but he modestly keeps it to himself.  Our secret
  communion with God is not to be proclaimed on the house-top.

- feared.
   * Jer 1:6-8 1Co 16:10,11

VERSE 16


VERSE 17 
 - I pray thee.
   * Ps 141:5 Da 4:19 Mic 2:7
- God.
   * 1Sa 20:13 Ru 1:17 2Sa 3:35; 19:13 1Ki 22:16 Mt 26:63
- more also.  Heb. so add.  thing.  or, word.


VERSE 18 
 - every whit.  Heb. all the things, or, words.
  Whit, or wid, comes from the Anglo-Saxon {wiht,} which
  signifies person, thing, etc.:  every whit is every thing:
  equivalent to every jot.

- It is the Lord.
   * Ge 18:25 Jud 10:15 2Sa 16:10-12 Job 1:21; 2:10 Ps 39:9
   * Isa 39:8 La 3:39 1Pe 5:6


VERSE 19 
 - grew.
   * 1Sa 2:21 Jud 13:24 Lu 1:80; 2:40,52
- the Lord.
   * 1Sa 18:14 Ge 39:2,21-23 Isa 43:2 Mt 1:23 Lu 1:28 2Co 13:11,14
   * 2Ti 4:22
- let none.
   * 1Sa 9:6 1Ki 8:56 Isa 44:26


VERSE 20 
 - Dan.
   * Jud 20:1 2Sa 3:10; 17:11
- established.  or, faithful.
   * 1Ti 1:12


VERSE 21 
 - And the Lord.
  {Wyyoseph yehowah lehaira"h,} "And Jehovah added to appear:"
  that is, He continued to reveal himself to Samuel at Shiloh.

- appeared.
   * Ge 12:7; 15:1 Nu 12:6 Am 3:7 Heb 1:1
- the word.
   * :1,4



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