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Hannah’s Prayer for a Son

Once after a sacrificial meal at Shiloh, Hannah got up and went to pray. Eli the priest was sitting at his customary place beside the entrance of the Tabernacle.[a]

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  1. 1:9 Hebrew the Temple of the Lord.

The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle[a] near the Ark of God.

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  1. 3:3 Hebrew the Temple of the Lord.

The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks[a]
    and strips the forests bare.
In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”

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  1. 29:9 Or causes the deer to writhe in labor.

The one thing I ask of the Lord
    the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
    delighting in the Lord’s perfections
    and meditating in his Temple.

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Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house;
    I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

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the king summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace,[a] but the Ark of God is out there in a tent!”

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  1. 7:2 Hebrew a house of cedar.

Samuel Speaks for the Lord

15 Samuel stayed in bed until morning, then got up and opened the doors of the Tabernacle[a] as usual. He was afraid to tell Eli what the Lord had said to him.

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  1. 3:15 Hebrew the house of the Lord.

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