Teks -- 1 Samuel 1:11 (NET)

1:11 She made a vow saying, “O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the suffering of your female servant, remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Sa 1:11 - Give him

That is, consecrate him to God's service in his temple.

Wesley: 1Sa 1:11 - No razor

That is, he shall be a perpetual Nazarite.

JFB: 1Sa 1:11 - she prayed . . . she vowed a vow

Here is a specimen of the intense desire that reigned in the bosoms of the Hebrew women for children. This was the burden of Hannah's prayer; and the strong preference she expressed for a male child originated in her purpose of dedicating him to the tabernacle service. The circumstance of his birth bound him to this; but his residence within the precincts of the sanctuary would have to commence at an earlier age than usual, in consequence of the Nazarite vow.

Clarke: 1Sa 1:11 - I will give him unto the Lord

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.

TSK: 1Sa 1:11 - vowed // look // remember // a man child // I will give // there

vowed : Gen 28:20; Num 21:2, Num 30:3-8; Jdg 11:30; Ecc 5:4

look : Gen 29:32; Exo 4:31; 2Sa 16:12; Psa 25:18

remember : 1Sa 1:19; Gen 8:1, Gen 30:22; Psa 132:1, Psa 132:2

a man child : Heb. seed of men

I will give : Samuel, as a descendent 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.

there : Num 6:5; Jdg 13:5

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Sa 1:11 - She vowed a vow // If thou wilt indeed look on // The affliction // Give him unto the Lord // All the days of his life // There shall no razor come upon his head

She vowed a vow knowing that her husband would willingly consent to it, otherwise she had not power to do it.

If thou wilt indeed look on to wit, favourably, so as to remove it.

The affliction i.e. the barrenness and reproach which attends it.

Give him unto the Lord i.e. consecrate him to God’ s service in his temple, as far as in me lies; for if he had any blemish, she might not do it.

All the days of his life not only from his twenty-fifth to his fiftieth year, as all the Levites, and so he himself, were obliged by God, Num 4:3 8:24 , but for his whole time; which is still to be understood with a reservation of God’ s right, which her now must give place to, as indeed it did; for God called him to be a prophet, and a general of the army, and a judge.

There shall no razor come upon his head i.e. he shall be a perpetual Nazarite; for under this one rule, as the chief, all the rest are contained; as elsewhere the whole Mosaical law is understood, under the title of circumcision.

Haydock: 1Sa 1:11 - A vow // Razor

A vow; rightly trusting that her husband would give his consent, Numbers xxx. 7. ---

Razor. Hebrew mora, "scissors." Septuagint, "iron." Some copies add, "he shall not drink wine, nor any intoxicating drink." In quality of Levite, Samuel was bound to serve the tabernacle from 25 or 30 years of age till he was 50, Numbers iv. 2. Anna consecrates him to the Lord for life, and promises that he shall be a Nazarite, like Samson, and St. John the Baptist. The law prescribes no rules for these perpetual Nazarites, Numbers vi. 3. Many of the ancients believe that Samuel always observed the prescriptions of Moses, and abstained from intoxicating liquors; though the Hebrew and Vulgate are silent on this head. We find that during his administration as Judge, he was not able to continue always near the tabernacle. (Calmet) ---

When he came to years of discretion, he might depart if he thought proper, like other Levites. Had he been of another tribe, he must have been redeemed. (Worthington) ---

Esther, Elcana, or Samuel, might have annulled this vow. (Salien, the year of the world 2900.)

Gill: 1Sa 1:11 - And she vowed a vow // and said, O Lord of hosts // if thou wilt indeed look upon the affliction of thine handmaid // and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid // but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child // then will I give him unto the Lord all the days of his life // and there shall no razor come upon his head

And she vowed a vow,.... Which might be confirmed by her husband; otherwise the vow of a woman, if disapproved of by her husband, was not valid, Num 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 ^r, 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 1Sa 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 1Sa 1:3; and it is an observation in the Talmud ^s, 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" ^t; 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 Num 8:24; 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, Num 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 ^u; but that Samuel was Nazarite, and a perpetual one, is the sense of their best interpreters.