17 Eli answered, “Go in peace,(A) and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.(B)

18 She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.(C)” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.(D)

19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah.(E) Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered(F) her. 20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.(G) She named(H) him Samuel,[a](I) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.

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