SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:11
e hizo voto, diciendo: El SEÑOR de los ejércitos, si te dignares mirar la aflicción de tu sierva, y te acordares de mí, y no te olvidares de tu sierva, mas dieres a tu sierva simiente de varón, yo lo dedicaré al SEÑOR todos los días de su vida, y no subirá navaja sobre su cabeza.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 1:11
Verse 11. I will give him unto the Lord] Samuel, as a descendant of the house of Levi, was the Lord's property from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite, on whose head no razor should pass.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And she vowed a vow , etc.] Which might be confirmed by her husband; otherwise the vow of a woman, if disapproved of by her husband, was not valid, ( Numbers 30:8) and Elkanah might make the same vow his wife did, and so it stood; for as this was a vow of Nazariteship, it is a tradition of the Jews f22 , that a man may vow his son to be a Nazarite, but a woman may not; but as this instance contradicts the tradition, they endeavour to explain away this vow, as it may respect a Nazarite, as will be observed hereafter: and said, O Lord of hosts ; this is properly the first time this title was used by any that we know of; for though it is expressed in ( 1 Samuel 1:3) there it is used as the words of the writer of this history, and so long after this prayer was put up; (see Gill on “ 1 Samuel 1:3”); and it is an observation in the Talmud f23 , that from the day God created the world, no man called him the Lord of hosts till Hannah came and called him so: if thou wilt indeed look upon the affliction of thine handmaid the sorrow of heart she had, the reproach she met with, on account of her having no children: and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid ; which petitions are the same in other words, and are repeated to denote her vehemence and importunity in prayer, and may allude to usages among men, that will look upon a person in distress, and turn away and forget them, and never think of them more; which she deprecates may not be her case with God: but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child ; or, “a seed of men” f24 ; a son in the midst of men, as the Targum; such as is desirable by men, as a male child for the most part is; though some Jewish writers interpret it of the seed of righteous, wise, and understanding men, such as be fit to serve the Lord, which seems to be a sense foreign to the text; a man child she asks, because no other could serve the Lord in the temple; and that she meant by this phrase such an one is clear, because she vowed that a razor should not come on its head, which is never said of females, as Kimchi observes: then will I give him unto the Lord all the days of his life ; to serve him, and minister unto him in the sanctuary; being born a Levite, it was incumbent on him to serve the Lord, and he had a right to his service; but then a common Levite did not enter on it until twenty five or thirty years of age, and was not always serving, but was dismissed from it at fifty ( Numbers 8:24,25); but the child she vows, if the Lord would give her such an one, should be trained up in his service from his infancy, and continue it all the days of his life; and was to be also a perpetual Nazarite, as Samson was, as follows: and there shall no razor come upon his head ; as was not to come upon a Nazarite, during his Nazariteship, ( Numbers 6:5) and as such a vow made by a woman contradicts the tradition of the Jews before mentioned, they give another sense of this clause; as the Targum, which paraphrases it, ``and the fear of man shall not be upon him;” but about this there is a division f25 ; but that Samuel was Nazarite, and a perpetual one, is the sense of their best interpreters.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-18 - Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of ou God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, no only to ask good things in general, but to mention that special goo thing we most need and desire. She spoke softly, none could hear her Hereby she testified her belief of God's knowledge of the heart and it desires. Eli was high priest, and judge in Israel. It ill becomes us to be rash and hasty in censures of others, and to think people guilty of bad things while the matter is doubtful and unproved. Hannah did no retort the charge, and upbraid Eli with the wicked conduct of his ow sons. When we are at any time unjustly censured, we have need to set double watch before the door of our lips, that we do not return censur for censure. Hannah thought it enough to clear herself, and so must we Eli was willing to acknowledge his mistake. Hannah went away with satisfaction of mind. She had herself by prayer committed her case to God, and Eli had prayed for her. Prayer is heart's ease to a graciou soul. Prayer will smooth the countenance; it should do so. None wil long remain miserable, who use aright the privilege of going to the mercy-seat of a reconciled God in Christ Jesus.
Original Hebrew
ותדר 5087 נדר 5088 ותאמר 559 יהוה 3068 צבאות 6635 אם 518 ראה 7200 תראה 7200 בעני 6040 אמתך 519 וזכרתני 2142 ולא 3808 תשׁכח 7911 את 853 אמתך 519 ונתתה 5414 לאמתך 519 זרע 2233 אנשׁים 376 ונתתיו 5414 ליהוה 3068 כל 3605 ימי 3117 חייו 2416 ומורה 4177 לא 3808 יעלה 5927 על 5921 ראשׁו׃ 7218
