Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 2:19
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.
19. a little coat ] The Heb. ml denotes a kind of long upper tunic, worn by kings (1Ch 15:27), prophets (1Sa 15:27), men of position (Job 2:12), women of rank (2Sa 13:18). The term is applied to a part of the High Priest’s dress, the robe of the Ephod (Exo 28:31), and it is suggested in the Speaker’s Comm. that “the mention of the ephod and the robe as worn by the youthful Samuel taken in connexion with his after acts 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.”
the yearly sacrifice ] See note on 1Sa 1:3.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
19, 20. Moreover, &c.] Lit. “And Hannah used to make and bring it to him And Eli used to bless and they used to go unto his home.” The verbs are frequentative, describing an annual practice often repeated.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A little coat – The robe of the ephod was also one of the garments worn by the High Priest (see Exo 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 nonconformity to the whole Law was the rule rather than the exception throughout the days of the Judges.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 19. Made him a little coat] 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
A little coat, suitable to his age and stature, to be worn ordinarily; for coats were their usual garments. See Gen 3:21; 37:3; 2Sa 15:32; Son 5:3; Dan 3:21; Luk 3:11; 9:3. Knowing that he could not yet do much service, she would not have him too burdensome to the tabernacle, and therefore she yearly provided him with a coat, which was the chief and upper garment; and under that his other garments possibly are comprehended.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. his mother made him a littlecoat, and brought it to him from year to yearAware that hecould not yet render any useful service to the tabernacle, sheundertook the expense of supplying him with wearing apparel. Allweaving stuffs, manufacture of cloth, and making of suits wereanciently the employment of women.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Moreover, his mother made him a little coat,…. Suitable to his stature; this was an outer coat to wear over others, and this also was such an one as the priests wore; it is the same word that is used for the priest’s robe, Ex 28:4, and this, it is very likely, was altogether of her own spinning, and weaving, and making up; which were works women did in those times: and this Hannah did partly out of her great love to her son Samuel, and partly to lessen the expense that Eli, or the congregation, were at in the maintenance of him; and the Talmudists q observe, that a priest might wear a garment, and minister in it, if his mother made it; and they give instances of priests, Ishmael and Eleazar, for whom their mothers made garments:
and brought it to him from year to year; for it seems this was only to be worn at festivals, and not on common days; and therefore she did not leave it with him, but took it home with her, and brought it again at the returning festival:
when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice: whether at the passover, or at Pentecost, or at the feast of tabernacles; and it is very probable she came with her husband at them all, yearly; for though she was not by the law obliged thereunto, yet her religious zeal and devotion, and her great desire to see her son as often as she could, induced her to come.
q T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 25. 1.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) A little coat.The little coatHebrew, milwas, no doubt, closely resembling in shape the mil, or robe worn apparently by the high priest, only the little mil of Samuel was without the costly symbolical ornaments attached to the high priestly robe.
This strange, unusual dress was, no doubt, arranged for the boy by his protector and guardian, Eli, who looked on the child as destined for some great work in connection with the life of the chosen people. Not improbably the old man, too, well aware of the character of his own sons, hoped to train up the favoured childwhose connection with himself and the sanctuary had begun in so remarkable a manneras his successor in the chief sacred and civil office in Israel.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Made him a little coat Probably designed for use when not engaged in the service of the sanctuary. How artlessly this token of a mother’s tenderness and love is mentioned.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Sa 2:19 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.
Ver. 19. His mother made him a little coat. ] To wear under his ephod at festival times, saith Pet. Martyr, and so showed her motherly care; and did something toward his maintenance.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a little coat: Meil katon, “a little cloak” or surtout; an upper garment (see note on Exo 28:4).
from year to year: 1Sa 1:3, 1Sa 1:21, Exo 23:14
Reciprocal: 1Sa 1:7 – year
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Sa 2:19. His mother made him a little coat The ephod, being used only in the service of God, was no doubt provided at the public expense. But for his ordinary wearing apparel Hannah took care to provide, that she might still express her piety in contributing to his maintenance at the house of God.