vowed: Gen 28:20; Num 21:2, Num 30:3-8; Jdg 11:30; Ecc 5:4
look: Gen 29:32; Exo 4:31; 2Sa 16:12; Psa 25:18
remember: 1Sa 1:19; Gen 8:1, Gen 30:22; Psa 132:1-2
a man child: Heb. seed of men
I will give: Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.