Verse 1
men. Hebrew. "enosh. App-14. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Abinadab. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, add "which is". in the hill. Or, in Gibeah.
Verse 2
time was long. Ark remained with Philistines seven months (1 Samuel 6:1); sent from Ekron to Kirjathjearim in 1040, and remained there twenty years (1Sa 7). From the capture (in 1040BC ) to its entry into Zion (in 950BC) was eighty-nine years (2 Samuel 7:17).
Verse 4
children = sons.
Verse 6
sinned. Hebrew. chata". App-44.
Verse 7
lords. See note on Joshua 13:3.
Verse 8
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Verse 9
Samuel took. Samuel was a Levite, and according to 1 Chronicles 23:27-32 could do this; though according to Numbers 18:3 he could not have acted in the holy place.
offered = offered up. See App-43.
Verse 10
thundered with a great thunder. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6.
Verse 13
coast = border, or boundary.
Verse 17
there was his house. Compare 1 Samuel 1:19, &c.
altar. Shiloh forsaken, and Ark separated from Tabernacle. There was no chosen "place".