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1 Samuel 1:19-20
New Living Translation
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.”
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