Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 1:11

11 And she vowed a vow , and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine hand-maid, and remember me, and not forget thine hand-maid, but wilt give unto thine hand-maid a man-child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life , and there shall no rasor come upon his head .

Knowing that her Husband would willingly consent to it, otherwise she had not power to do it.

To wit, favourably, so as to remove it.

i. e. The Barrenness and Reproach which attends it.

i. e. Consecrate him to Gods Service in his Temple, as far as in me lies: for if he had any Blemish, she might not do it.

Not only from his 25th to his 50th Year, as all the Levites, and so he himself, were obliged by God, Numb. 4. 2. and 8. 24. but for his whole time. Which is still to be understood with a reservation of Gods right, which her Vow must give place to, as indeed it did; for God called him to be a Prophet, and a General of the Army, and a Judge.

i. e. He shall be a perpetual Nazarite: for under this one Rule, as the Chief, all the rest are contained; as elsewhere the whole Mosaical Law is understood, under the Title of Circumcision.

Marginal references: Heb. seed of men.; [illegible: 1+ letters] Numb. 6. 5. Judg. 13. 5.