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1 Samuel 1:11

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vowed: Genesis 28:20; Numbers 21:2, Numbers 30:3-8; Judges 11:30; Ecclesiastes 5:4

look: Genesis 29:32; Exodus 4:31; 2 Samuel 16:12; Psalms 25:18

remember: 1 Samuel 1:19; Genesis 8:1, Genesis 30:22; Psalms 132:1-2

a man child: Heb. seed of men

I will give: Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.

there: Numbers 6:5; Judges 13:5

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