1 Samuel 2:19

1 Samuel 2:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Moreover his mother used to make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Each year his mother made a small coat for him and brought it to him when she came with her husband for the sacrifice.

Context of 1 Samuel 2:19

17This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt. 18But Samuel was ministering before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod. Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. 20Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the Lord.” Then they would go home. 21And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:19 word by word

וּמְעִ֤יל קָטֹן֙ תַּעֲשֶׂה־לּ֣וֹ אִמּ֔וֹ וְהַעַלְתָ֥ה ל֖וֹ מִיָּמִ֣ים׀ יָמִ֑ימָה בַּֽעֲלוֹתָהּ֙ אֶת־אִישָׁ֔הּ לִזְבֹּ֖חַ אֶת־זֶ֥בַח הַיָּמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Moreover his motherאֵם'êm · motherH517
• madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• him a littleקָטֹןqâţân qâţôn · smallH6996
• coatמְעִילme‛îyl · robeH4598
• and broughtעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: establishH5927
• to him from yearיוֹםyôm · day: yearH3117
• when she came upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• with her husbandאִישׁ'îysh · man: husbandH376
• to offerזָבַחzâbach · to sacrificeH2076
• sacrificeזֶ֫בַחzebach · sacrificeH2077

Cross-references for 1 Samuel 2:19

• Exodus 28:4These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so they may serve me as priests.
• 1 Samuel 1:3Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the Lord.
• Exodus 23:14“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 2:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Made him a little coat - קטן מעיל meil katon, a little cloak, or surtout, an upper garment: probably intended to keep him from the cold, and to save his other clothes from being abused in his meaner services. It is probable that she furnished him with a new one each year, when she came up to one of the annual sacrifices.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19A little coat - The robe of the ephod was also one of the garments worn by the High Priest (see Exodus 28:31 note). This pointed mention of the ephod and the robe as worn by the youthful Samuel, seems to point to an extraordinary and irregular priesthood to which he was called by God in an age when the provisions of the Levitical law were not yet in full operation, and in which there was no impropriety in the eyes of his contemporaries, seeing that…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-26Verses 11-26 Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did this with a pious disposition of mind, it was called ministering unto the Lord. He received a blessing from the Lord. Those young people who serve God as well as they can, he will enable to improve, that they may serve him better. Eli shunned trouble and exertion. This led him to indulge his…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year--Aware that he could not yet render any useful service to the tabernacle, she undertook the expense of supplying him with wearing apparel. All weaving stuffs, manufacture of cloth, and making of suits were anciently the employment of women.Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Samuel 2:19

• Dress
• Hannah
• Hophni
• Parents
• Samuel
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Coat
• Crouch
• Custom
• Dress
• Dunghill
• Dust
• Esteem
• Festivals, Religious
• Fleshhook
• Hannah

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings