Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 2:1

AND Hannah prayed , and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD : mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies , because I rejoyce in thy salvation .

i. e. Praise God, which is a part of Prayer, Col. 4. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 1. so it is a Synecdochical expression.

Or, leapeth for joy: for the words note not only inward joy, but also the outward Demonstrations of it.

As the Author and the Matter of my joy, that he hath heard my Prayer, and accepted my Son for his Service.

My strength and glory (which are oft signified by an Horn, as Psal. 89. 17, 24. and 92. 10.) are advanced and manifested to my Vindication, and the Confusion of mine Enemies.

i. e. Opened wide to pour forth abundant Praises to God, and to give a full answer to all the reproaches of mine Adversaries; whereas, before it was shut through Grief and Confusion.

i. e. More than theirs, or so as to get the Victory over them, as she saith afterwards. Here she manifests her great Prudence, and Piety, and Modesty, that she doth not name Peninnah, but only her Enemies in the general.

Because the matter of my joy is no trivial or Worldly thing, but that strange and glorious Salvation or Deliverance which thou hast given me from my own oppressing Care and Grief, and from the Insolencies and Reproaches of mine Enemies, in giving me a Son, and such a Son as this, who shall be serviceable to God, and to his People, in helping them against their Enemies, which she Presaged, as may be guessed from v. 10.

Marginal references: See Luk. 1. 46. &c.