1 Samuel 2:18

And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with a linen ephod.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

In Context

17So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they set at nought the offering of the Lord.

19And his mother made him a little doublet, and brought it to him from year to year, in her going up in company with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Cross References

Leviticus 8:7and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;

1 Samuel 2:28And I chose the house of thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to me in the priest’s office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave to the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food.

1 Samuel 14:3And Ahijah son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, was the priest of God in Shiloh wearing an ephod: and the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

2 Samuel 6:14And David sounded with well-tuned instruments before the Lord, and David was clothed with a fine long robe.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:12-27

Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. ( b. c. 1130.) 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord . 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the… Read the whole commentary →

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