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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 1</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//1_samuel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/1_samuel/">1 Samuel</a> > 1 Samuel 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ruth/4.htm" title="Ruth 4">◄</a> 1 Samuel 1 <a href="../1_samuel/2.htm" title="1 Samuel 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_samuel/1.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/1.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_samuel/1.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/1.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_samuel/1.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/1.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/1.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Elkanah and His Wives<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/113.htm">Psalm 113:1–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But to Hannah he would give a double portion,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Hannah Prays for a Son<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. <p class="reg"> So Eli thought she was drunk <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.” <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast. <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">The Birth of Samuel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. <p class="reg"> And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> <p class="reg"> So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> an ephah of flour,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” <p class="reg"> So they worshiped<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> the LORD there.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>from Ramathaim, a Zuphite</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see LXX and <a href="../1_chronicles/6.htm#26">1 Chronicles 6:26 and 35</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Elihu</i><span class="thin"> </span> is also called <i>Eliab</i><span class="thin"> </span> and <i>Eliel</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../1_chronicles/6.htm#27">1 Chronicles 6:27 and 34</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>a choice portion</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>Samuel</i><span class="thin"> </span> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>heard of God</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> MT; DSS include <i>I will offer him as a Nazirite for all time.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> MT; DSS, LXX, and Syriac <i>your word</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> DSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT <i>three bulls</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <i>An ephah</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 25.5 pounds or 11.6 kilograms of flour).<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> One DSS manuscript; MT <i>he worshiped</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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