Verse 9
9. A sucking lamb שׂלה חלב , a lamb of milk, that is, young and tender, only seven or eight days old, (Leviticus 22:27,) such “being the most suitable to represent the nation that had wakened up to new life through its conversion to the Lord, and was, as it were, newborn.” Keil.
A burnt offering wholly Not cut up and divided, as sacrificial victims often were, but offered entire. We need not suppose that Samuel offered this burnt-offering with his own hand, and thus assumed a function of the priesthood. The co-operation of the priests on such occasions being generally understood, no particular reference to that fact was here necessary. Samuel stood by and blessed the sacrifice. Compare 1 Samuel 9:13, and note.
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