1 Samuel 2:20

20 Eli abençoava Elcana e sua mulher, dizendo: “O SENHOR dê a você filhos desta mulher no lugar daquele por quem ela pediu e dedicou ao SENHOR”. Então voltavam para casa.

1 Samuel 2:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 2:20

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (wmwqml) "in locum suum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius

1 Samuel 2:20 In-Context

18 Samuel, contudo, ainda menino, ministrava perante o SENHOR, vestindo uma túnica de linho.

19 Todos os anos sua mãe fazia uma pequena túnica e a levava para ele, quando subia a Siló com o marido para oferecer o sacrifício anual.

20 Eli abençoava Elcana e sua mulher, dizendo: “O SENHOR dê a você filhos desta mulher no lugar daquele por quem ela pediu e dedicou ao SENHOR”. Então voltavam para casa.

21 O SENHOR foi bondoso com Ana; ela engravidou e deu à luz três filhos e duas filhas. Enquanto isso, o menino Samuel crescia na presença do SENHOR.

22 Eli, já bem idoso, ficou sabendo de tudo o que seus filhos faziam a todo o Israel e que eles se deitavam com as mulheres que serviam junto à entrada da Tenda do Encontro.