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1 Samuel 1:22

But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide forever.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Weaned. The mother of the Machabees weaned her children when they were three years old; (2 Machabees vii. 27.) which Gallien asserts as the proper time, though Avicenna fixes upon two years. See Genesis xxi. 8. Iremellius translates, "till the child be grown up. "But we must not allow any long term, since he was very young when he was presented to the Lord, ver. 24.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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