And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife
Not only the first time they brought Samuel to him, and left him
with him; but every year they came to worship, as the Jewish
commentators mostly interpret it:
and said, the Lord give thee seed of this
woman;
children by her, year after year:
for the loan which is lent to the Lord;
instead of Samuel, who was asked of the Lord and given to him
again; and as they were thereby in some measure deprived of him,
and could not always enjoy him, and be delighted with him, Eli
prayed for them, and gave them his benediction as a priest, that
they might be favoured with other children, who might be of
delight and service to them when in old age:
and they went unto their own home;
at Ramah, as in ( 1 Samuel
2:11 ) or to his place F18, Elkanah's; hence Kimchi
concludes that Hannah was of another city originally; but the
Targum is,
``to their place;''and indeed, what was now the place or home of the one, was of the other.