John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 7:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Samuel took a sucking lamb, etc.] Which it might be, and yet more than eight days old, for under that it might not be sacrificed, (<022230>Exodus 22:30) and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord; the whole of it was burnt, skin and all, whereas the skin was the priest’s in other burnt offerings; and this is remarked f141 as one of the three things in which it differed from other offerings; the word being feminine, the Jews gather from hence, as Jarchi notes, that females might be offered at a private altar: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; not only offered a sacrifice for them, but prayed for them: and the Lord heard him; and answered him, either by causing fire to come down on the sacrifice, by which it was consumed, or by the voice of thunder, which frightened and discomfited the Philistines; and the event of things manifestly showed it.

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