It might be a sucking lamb, though it was more than eight days old, and so that law, Exo_23:19, was not violated.
Offered it; either himself by Divine instinct, which was a sufficient warrant; or rather by a priest, as Saul is afterwards said to have offered, 1Sa_13:9.
A burnt-offering wholly; burning all the parts of it, according to the law of the burnt-offerings; whereas in other offerings some parts were reserved.
The Lord heard him, as appears by the effects, the following thunder, and the overthrow of the Philistines’ host.