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Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> had closed her womb. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Because the <span class="name">Lord</span> had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, weeping bitterly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And she made a vow, saying, “<span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the <span class="name">Lord</span> for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As she kept on praying to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, Eli observed her mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the <span class="name">Lord</span> and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> remembered her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.">b</a></sup></span> saying, “Because I asked the <span class="name">Lord</span> for him.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Hannah Dedicates Samuel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the <span class="name">Lord</span> and to fulfill his vow, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and he will live there always.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls always. I have dedicated him as a Nazirite--all the days of his life.''">c</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the <span class="name">Lord</span> make good his <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac your">d</a></sup></span> word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text with three bulls">e</a></sup></span> an ephah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms">f</a></sup></span> of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span> at Shiloh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I prayed for this child, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> has granted me what I asked of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So now I give him to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. For his whole life he will be given over to the <span class="name">Lord</span>.” And he worshiped the <span class="name">Lord</span> there.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 6:26-27,33-35; or <i>from Ramathaim Zuphim</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Samuel</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>heard by God.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls <i>always. I have dedicated him as a Nazirite—all the days of his life.”</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac <i>your</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text <i>with three bulls</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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