Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 1:28

28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD as long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.

Or, given him, &c. i. e. do now give or offer him: for she did not lend him for a time, with a purpose or right to require him again. The words may be rendred thus: And I also asked him, or made my self to ask him (an usual Hebraism) for the Lord, i. e. I Prayed for this Child, not only for my self, and to take away my reproach, but especially that I might have a Child to Serve and Devote to the Lord. And so the following words, as long as he liveth, are not to be joyned with this foregoing Clause, but with those which come next after them; and that whole Clause may be thus rendred, as a consequent upon the former. And, or, therefore all the days in which he is, or shall be, he is or shall be lent or given to the Lord; or, as one begged for the Lord, and for his Service, and therefore justly given to him.

Or, rendred, or used as one given in my Prayer; for this was the condition of my Prayer, that he should be the Lords.

Not Eli, who is not mentioned, but v. 25. and then only passively, not as speaking or doing any thing; nor Elkanah, of whom here is no mention: but young Samuel, who is the subject spoken of in this and the foregoing Verse, and who was capable of worshipping God in some sort, at least with External Adoration; of which see on v. 22. And so the Particle there is Emphatical, signifying that hereby he entred himself into the worship and service of God in that place, to which he was Devoted by his Parents, and now did Devote himself.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] him whom I have [illegible: 1 word] by petition, [illegible: 1 word] the LORD.; Or, he [illegible: 1 word] I have [illegible: 1+ letters] ed by petition, shall be returned.