the son of Elkanah and of Hannah, of the tribe of Levi, and
family of Kohath, was born, A. M. 2848. He was an eminent inspired
prophet, historian, and the seventeenth and last Judge of Israel; and
died in the ninety-eighth year of his age, two years before Saul, A. M.
2947, 1 Sam. xxv. To Samuel are ascribed the book of Judges, that of
Ruth, and the first book of Samuel. There is, indeed, great probability
that he composed the first twenty-four chapters of the first book of
Samuel; since they contain nothing but what he might have written, and
such transactions as he was chiefly concerned in. However, in these
chapters there are some small additions, which seem to have been
inserted after his death. Samuel began the order of the prophets, which
was never discontinued till the death of Zechariah and Malachi, Acts
iii, 24. From early youth to hoary years, the character of Samuel is one
on which the mind rests with veneration and delight.
family of Kohath, was born, A. M. 2848. He was an eminent inspired
prophet, historian, and the seventeenth and last Judge of Israel; and
died in the ninety-eighth year of his age, two years before Saul, A. M.
2947, 1 Sam. xxv. To Samuel are ascribed the book of Judges, that of
Ruth, and the first book of Samuel. There is, indeed, great probability
that he composed the first twenty-four chapters of the first book of
Samuel; since they contain nothing but what he might have written, and
such transactions as he was chiefly concerned in. However, in these
chapters there are some small additions, which seem to have been
inserted after his death. Samuel began the order of the prophets, which
was never discontinued till the death of Zechariah and Malachi, Acts
iii, 24. From early youth to hoary years, the character of Samuel is one
on which the mind rests with veneration and delight.