18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)In these verses we have the good character and posture of Elkanah’s family, and the bad character and posture of Eli’s family. The account of these two is observably interwoven throughout this whole paragraph, as if the historian intended to set the one over against the other, that they might set off one another. The devotion and good order of Elkanah’s family aggravated the iniquity of Eli’s hous…
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