Until the child is weaned - Hebrew mothers, as elsewhere in the East, usually suckled their children until the age of two complete years, so…

Until the child be weaned. —Weaning, we know, took place very late among the Hebrews. From 2 Maccabees 7:27, it appears that Hebre…

But Hannah went not up
For women, though they might go if they pleased to the yearly feasts, yet they were not oblig…

Elkanah and his family had a journey before them, and a family of children to take with them, yet they would not move until they had worshipped God…