1 Samuel 1:22

“But Hannah went not up, etc.] For women, though they might go if they pleased to the yearly feasts, yet they were not obliged to it; whether she went up at the time for her purification, and for the presenting and redemption of the firstborn, is not certain; some say the Levites were not obliged by that law, the perquisites of it falling to them, and so did not go up; others that she did, though it is not expressed, the Scriptures not relating all facts that were done; though by what follows it looks as if she did not: for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned: which, according to Jarchi, was at the end of twenty two months; but others say at the end of twenty…”

“But Hannah went not up--Men only were obliged to attend the solemn feasts (Exo 23:17). But Hannah, like other pious women, was in the habit of going, only she deemed it more prudent and becoming to defer her next journey till her son's age would enable her to fulfill her vow.”

“Until the child be weaned - Hebrew mothers, as elsewhere in the East, usually suckled their children until the age of two complete years, sometimes until the age of three. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Weaned - Not only from the breast, but also from the mother's knee and care, and from childish food; 'till the child be something grown up, and fit to do some service in the tabernacle: for it seems that as soon as he was brought up he worshipped God, Sa1 1:28, and presently after ministered to Eli, Sa1 2:11. 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 1:23”

“1:22 until the boy is weaned: Hannah would have nursed Samuel two to four years.”

“then: Deu 16:16; Luk 2:22, Luk 2:41, Luk 2:42 and there: Sa1 1:11, Sa1 1:28, Sa1 2:11, Sa1 2:18, Sa1 3:1; Psa 23:6, Psa 27:4 for ever: Exo 21:6; Lev 25:23; Jos 4:7; Psa 110:4; Isa 9:7 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 1:23”