1 Samuel 1:18-20
International Children’s Bible
18 Hannah said, “I want to be pleasing to you always.” Then she left and ate something. She was not sad anymore.
19 Early the next morning Elkanah’s family got up and worshiped the Lord. Then they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had intimate relations with his wife Hannah. And the Lord remembered her. 20 So Hannah became pregnant, and in time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel.[a] She said, “His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him.”
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- 1:20 Samuel This name sounds like the Hebrew word for “God heard.”
1 Samuel 1:18-20
King James Version
18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.
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