1 Samuel 1:19-20
New Living Translation
Samuel’s Birth and Dedication
19 The entire family got up early the next morning and went to worship the Lord once more. Then they returned home to Ramah. When Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea, 20 and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[a] for she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”
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- 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew term for “asked of God” or “heard by God.”
1 Samuel 1:19-20
Legacy Standard Bible
The Birth of Samuel
19 Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh and turned back and came to their house in (A)Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and (B)Yahweh remembered her. 20 Now it happened [a]in due time that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “(C)Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
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- 1 Samuel 1:20 Lit at the circuit of the days
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