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Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/1_samuel/3-10.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/1_samuel/1.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/1_samuel/1.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/1_samuel/1.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_samuel/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) <span class= "bld">After they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk.</span>—This was the solemn sacrificial meal, at which the whole family were present.<p><span class= "bld">Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat.</span>—Eli, the high priest of Israel at this time, was a descendant of Ithamar, the younger son of Aaron (see <a href="/1_chronicles/24-3.htm" title="And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.">1Chronicles 24:3</a>, where it is stated that his great-grandson, Ahimelech, was of the sons of Ithamar). The circumstances which led to the transfer of the dignity from the line of Eleazar, who succeeded his father Aaron in the office, are unknown. It has been suggested that at the death of the <span class= "ital">last high </span>priest of the line of Eleazar, Ozi, there was no son of sufficient age and experience to succeed, and so the office passed to the next of kin, Eli, a son of the house of Ithamar. (See Josephus, <span class= "ital">Antt. v.</span>, 2, § 5.)<p>The seat upon which Eli is represented as usually sitting (see <a href="/1_samuel/4-18.htm" title="And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.">1Samuel 4:18</a>) was evidently a chair or throne of state, where the high-priestly judge sat at certain times to administer justice and to transact business. The Hebrew word rendered here “post,” and the expression “doors of the house” (<a href="/1_samuel/3-15.htm" title="And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.">1Samuel 3:15</a>), seem to suggest that now a permanent home had been erected for the sanctuary: something of a building, possibly of stone, surrounding the Tabernacle had been built.<p>The “temple of the Lord,” rather, <span class= "ital">palace of the Lord, </span>so called not from any external magnificence but as being the earthly place where at times the visible glory of the Eternal King of Israel, the Shekinah, was pleased to manifest itself.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/1_samuel/1.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/1_samuel/1-9.htm" title="So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat on a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.">1 Samuel 1:9</a></span>. <span class="ital">So Hannah rose up — </span>The kind words of her husband in a great measure removed her sorrow, and induced her to eat and drink cheerfully. In her we have an example of a dutiful wife; who, sensible of her husband’s kindness, endeavoured to please him, by complying with his desires, and avoiding what she perceived would give pain to his mind. <span class="ital">Eli sat upon a seat — </span>Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">הכסא</span><span class="ital">hachissee, a throne, </span>it being a seat raised up to some height, to make him conspicuous to all that entered into the house of God; at the door of which he sat, either as judge, or as high-priest, to hear and answer such as came to him for advice, and to inspect and direct the worship of God. <span class="ital">By a post of the temple — </span>That is, of the tabernacle, which is frequently so called; as the temple, when it was built, is called a tabernacle. See <a href="/jeremiah/10-20.htm" title="My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.">Jeremiah 10:20</a>; <a href="/lamentations/2-6.htm" title="And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.">Lamentations 2:6</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/1_samuel/1.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>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 ask good things in general, but to mention that special good 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 its 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 not retort the charge, and upbraid Eli with the wicked conduct of his own sons. When we are at any time unjustly censured, we have need to set a double watch before the door of our lips, that we do not return censure 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 gracious soul. Prayer will smooth the countenance; it should do so. None will long remain miserable, who use aright the privilege of going to the mercy-seat of a reconciled God in Christ Jesus.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/1_samuel/1.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>After they had eaten ... - Rather, "after she had eaten and after she had drunk," which is obviously right. Hannah, in the bitterness of her spirit, could not enjoy her feast, and so, after eating and drinking a little, she arose and went to the temple, leaving her husband and Peninnah and her children at table, where she still found them on her return <a href="/1_samuel/1-18.htm">1 Samuel 1:18</a>.<p>Upon a seat ... - Rather, "upon the throne," the pontifical chair of state <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/4-13.htm">1 Samuel 4:13</a>, which was probably set at the gate leading into the inner court of the tabernacle.<p>The temple of the Lord - The application of the word temple to the tabernacle is found only here, <a href="/1_samuel/3-3.htm">1 Samuel 3:3</a>; and <a href="/psalms/5-7.htm">Psalm 5:7</a>; and the use of this word here is thought by some an indication of the late date of the composition of this passage. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/1_samuel/1.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>1Sa 1:9-18. Hannah's Prayer.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/1_samuel/1.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">After they had eaten, </span> i.e. Elkanah and his company, except Hannah. Or, <span class="ital">she</span>; for though at first she eat nothing, yet upon her husband’s invitation and encouragement she might eat afterwards; though the former may seem more probable. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Upon a seat, </span> or <span class="ital">throne</span>; for it is manifest it was raised higher than ordinary, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_samuel/4-18.htm" title="And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.">1 Samuel 4:18</a></span>. Here he might sit, either as the judge, or rather as high priest, to hear and answer such as came to him for advice, and to inspect and direct the worship of God as need was. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">By a post of the temple, </span> i.e. of the tabernacle, which is called the temple here, and <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/1_samuel/3-3.htm" title="And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;">1 Samuel 3:3</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-7.htm" title="In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.">2 Samuel 22:7</a> <a href="/psalms/27-6.htm" title="And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.">Psalm 27:6</a></span>; as, on the contrary, the temple is called the tabernacle, <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/jeremiah/10-20.htm" title="My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.">Jeremiah 10:20</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-6.htm" title="And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.">Lamentations 2:6</a></span>. And although this tabernacle was but a tent, yet it was supported by boards and posts, and especially at the entrance, by which Eli sat, even by the entrance into the outward court, otherwise he could not have seen Hannah. <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/1_samuel/3-15.htm" title="And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.">1 Samuel 3:15</a>"</span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/1_samuel/1.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drank,.... After dinner, after Elkanah and Peninnah, and their children, had eaten heartily, and drank freely, and made a comfortable meal, and even a feast of it, at the place where the tabernacle and altar were, and their peace offerings were offered up, part of which they had been regaling themselves with. The Targum is,"after she had eaten in Shiloh, and after she had drank;''for upon the entreaty of her husband, and to make him easy, she might be prevailed upon to eat somewhat, though it might be but little; and to drink, though it was but water; for as for wine and strong drink, she declares afterwards she had not drank, <a href="/1_samuel/1-15.htm">1 Samuel 1:15</a>. <p>now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord; for so the tabernacle was called, and sometimes the temple is called a tabernacle, <a href="/jeremiah/10-20.htm">Jeremiah 10:20</a>. Now at the door posts and side of the threshold of the temple of the Lord, as the Targum; at the entrance of the great court of the Israelites, Eli had a seat placed, on which he sat; this must be at the gate of the court of the tabernacle, by the pillars of it; for in the court itself none afterwards might sit but kings of the family David (n); here Eli sat as an high priest and judge, give advice in difficult cases, and to try and judge all causes that were brought before him; some say (o) that he was on this day constituted an high priest, and others say (q) he was now made a judge; but no doubt he was both high priest and judge before this time. <p>(n) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Yoma, c. 7. sect. 1.((o) Shoched Tob apud Yalkut, par. 2. fol. 12. 4. (q) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/1_samuel/1.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the <span class="cverse3">{e}</span> temple of the LORD.</span><p>(e) That is of the house where the ark was.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/1_samuel/1.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div>9–20. Hannah’s Prayer and its answer<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">9</span>. <span class="ital">So Hannah rose up</span>] Simply <span class="bld">And.</span> Hannah left the feast for which she had not heart, and went to pray.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Eli the priest</span>] Eli belonged to the house of Ithamar Aaron’s fourth son, as is clear from a comparison of <a href="/1_chronicles/24-3.htm" title="And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.">1 Chronicles 24:3</a> with <a href="/2_samuel/8-17.htm" title="And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;">2 Samuel 8:17</a> and <a href="/1_kings/2-17.htm" title="And he said, Speak, I pray you, to Solomon the king, (for he will not say you no,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.">1 Kings 2:17</a>, and from the omission of his name in the genealogy of Eleazar in <a href="/context/1_chronicles/6-4.htm" title="Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,...">1 Chronicles 6:4-15</a>. The last high-priest mentioned before him was Phinehas the son of Eleazar (<a href="/judges/20-28.htm" title="And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into your hand.">Jdg 20:28</a>); but when or why the succession passed into the family of Ithamar, we are not told. The office did not return to the line of Eleazar until Solomon deposed Abiathar in fulfilment of the doom pronounced upon the house of Eli, and appointed Zadok in his place (<a href="/1_kings/2-27.htm" title="So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to the LORD; that he might fulfill the word of the LORD, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.">1 Kings 2:27</a>). Eli united the offices of Priest and Judge.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">upon a seat by a post of the temple</span>] Rather, “upon <span class="bld">the</span> seat (or, <span class="bld">his</span> seat) by <span class="bld">the doorpost</span> of the temple.” “The sanctuary itself was so encased with buildings, as to give it the name and appearance of ‘a house’ or ‘temple.’ There was a gateway with a seat inside the doorposts or pillars which supported it. It was ‘the seat’ or ‘throne’ of the ruler or judge, as afterwards in the Palace of Solomon. Here Eli sat on days of religious or political solemnity, and surveyed the worshippers as they came up the eminence on which the sanctuary was placed.” Stanley’s <span class="ital">Lectures on the Jewish Church</span>, I. 321.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>the <span class="ital">temple</span>] The Heb. word denotes <span class="ital">a spacious and stately building</span>: hence (<span class="ital">a</span>) a royal palace: (<span class="ital">b</span>) the temple: (<span class="ital">c</span>) heaven, as the true temple of Jehovah. It is applied to the <span class="ital">tabernacle</span> only here and in <a href="/1_samuel/3-3.htm" title="And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;">1 Samuel 3:3</a>, and possibly in <a href="/psalms/5-7.htm" title="But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.">Psalm 5:7</a>. Its use in the present passage may indicate that the book was written at a time when the religious nomenclature had been coloured by the construction of Solomon’s temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_samuel/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">After they had eaten .... after they had drunk.</span> The Hebrew favours the translation, "After she had eaten in Shiloh, and after she had drunk;" the somewhat forced rendering of the A.V. having arisen from a supposed discrepancy between this verse and ver. 7. Really there is none. The words simply mean that Hannah took part in the sacrificial banquet, though she did so without appetite or pleasure; and thus they connect her visit to the temple and her prayer with the most solemn religious service of the year. To take part in this banquet was a duty, but as soon as she had fulfilled it she withdrew to the temple to pour out her grief before God. There Eli, <span class="cmt_word">the priest,</span> <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the high priest, as in <a href="/numbers/26-1.htm">Numbers 26:1</a>; <a href="/numbers/27-2.htm">Numbers 27:2</a>, was seated upon, not a seat, but <span class="accented">the</span> pontifical throne, placed at the entrance leading into the inner court of the tabernacle, so that all who came to worship must pass before him. It is remarkable that the tabernacle is called the <span class="accented">temple</span> (so <a href="/1_samuel/3-3.htm">1 Samuel 3:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/5-7.htm">Psalm 5:7</a>), or, more literally, the "palace" of Jehovah, his royal residence; and it thus appears that the name had come into use before Solomon's building was erected. The curtains (<a href="/exodus/26-1.htm">Exodus 26:1</a>) also had given place to a <span class="accented">mezuzah</span>, translated <span class="accented">a post</span>, but really a sort of porch, with doors, as appears from <a href="/1_samuel/3-15.htm">1 Samuel 3:15</a> (comp. <a href="/exodus/21-6.htm">Exodus 21:6</a>; <a href="/1_kings/7-5.htm">1 Kings 7:5</a>). As the tabernacle remained stationary at Shiloh for 300 years, naturally numerous buildings of a more solid nature grew up around it. 1 Samuel 1:9<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/1_samuel/1.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Hannah's prayer for a son. - <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-9.htm">1 Samuel 1:9-11</a>. "After the eating at Shiloh, and after the drinking," i.e., after the sacrificial meal was over, Hannah rose up with a troubled heart, to pour out her grief in prayer before God, whilst Eli was sitting before the door-posts of the palace of Jehovah, and vowed this vow: "Lord of Zebaoth, if Thou regardest the distress of Thy maiden, and givest men's seed to Thy maiden, I will give him to the Lord all his life long, and no razor shall come upon his head." The choice of the infinitive absolute שׁתה instead of the infinitive construct is analogous to the combination of two nouns, the first of which is defined by a suffix, and the second written absolutely (see e.g., וזמרת עזּי, <a href="/exodus/15-2.htm">Exodus 15:2</a>; cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-5.htm">2 Samuel 23:5</a>, and Ewald, 339, b). The words from ועלי onwards to נפשׁ מרת form two circumstantial clauses inserted in the main sentence, to throw light upon the situation and the further progress of the affair. The tabernacle is called "the palace of Jehovah" (cf. <a href="/1_samuel/2-22.htm">1 Samuel 2:22</a>), not on account of the magnificence and splendour of the building, but as the dwelling-place of Jehovah of hosts, the God-king of Israel, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/5-8.htm">Psalm 5:8</a>, etc. מזוּזה is probably a porch, which had been placed before the curtain that formed the entranced into the holy place, when the tabernacle was erected permanently at Shiloh. נפשׁ מרת, troubled in soul (cf. <a href="/2_kings/4-27.htm">2 Kings 4:27</a>). תבכּה וּבכה is really subordinate to תּתפּלּל, in the sense of "weeping much during her prayer." The depth of her trouble was also manifest in the crowding together of the words in which she poured out the desire of her heart before God: "If Thou wilt look upon the distress of Thine handmaid, and remember and not forget," etc. "Men's seed" (semen virorum), i.e., a male child. אנשׁים is the plural of אישׁ, a man (see Ewald, 186-7), from the root אשׁ, which combines the two ideas of fire, regarded as life, and giving life and firmness. The vow contained two points: (1) she would give the son she had prayed for to be the Lord's all the days of his life, i.e., would dedicate him to the Lord for a lifelong service, which, as we have already observed at <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-1.htm">1 Samuel 1:1</a>, the Levites as such were not bound to perform; and (2) no razor should come upon his head, by which he was set apart as a Nazarite for his whole life (see at <a href="/numbers/6-2.htm">Numbers 6:2</a>., and <a href="/judges/13-5.htm">Judges 13:5</a>). The Nazarite, again, was neither bound to perform a lifelong service nor to remain constantly at the sanctuary, but was simply consecrated for a certain time, whilst the sacrifice offered at his release from the vow shadowed forth a complete surrender to the Lord. The second point, therefore, added a new condition to the first, and one which was not necessarily connected with it, but which first gave the true consecration to the service of the Lord at the sanctuary. At the same time, the qualification of Samuel for priestly functions, such as the offering of sacrifice, can neither be deduced from the first point in the vow, nor yet from the second. 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