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    1 Samuel · 28 verses

    1 Samuel 1

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    Eli watches Hannah’s silent prayer, sees only her lips moving, and diagnoses wine. The chapter is not short of surprises after that: a husband offers himself as compensation for ten sons, and the answer to a prayer arrives with a bull, flour, and a skin of wine.

    A household carried up to Shilohvv. 1–8

    Elkanah comes from the hill country of Ephraim, with a family tree behind him and two wives beside him. Peninnah has children; Hannah has none, and Peninnah’s taunts turn the yearly pilgrimage to Shiloh into an annual misery. Elkanah gives Hannah a double portion because he loves her, then asks whether he is not better to her than ten sons—a question with the unmistakable air of having seemed better before it was spoken.

    The prayer Eli mistakes for drunkennessvv. 9–18

    After eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stands by the house of the LORD and prays in such silence that Eli can inspect her mouth without hearing a word. He mistakes the moving lips for drink, and Hannah has to explain that she has poured out her soul rather than wine. Eli then sends her away with a blessing, and the woman who arrived unable to eat leaves with an appetite and a changed face.

    The child asked for, and given backvv. 19–28

    The next morning the household returns to Ramah, and the LORD remembers Hannah. Samuel is born and named for the asking. Hannah waits until he is weaned, then brings him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh with a bull, flour, and wine. She tells Eli that this is the boy for whom she prayed, and dedicates him to the LORD for as long as he lives. The chapter ends with worship there, having carried its answer back to the place of the question.

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    1. 1 Sam 1:1Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

    2. 1 Sam 1:2He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

    3. 1 Sam 1:3Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

    4. 1 Sam 1:4And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

    5. 1 Sam 1:5But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.

    6. 1 Sam 1:6Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her viciously to taunt her.

    7. 1 Sam 1:7And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

    8. 1 Sam 1:8“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

    9. 1 Sam 1:9So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

    10. 1 Sam 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

    11. 1 Sam 1:11And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

    12. 1 Sam 1:12As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.

    13. 1 Sam 1:13Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk

    14. 1 Sam 1:14and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

    15. 1 Sam 1:15“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

    16. 1 Sam 1:16Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

    17. 1 Sam 1:17“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”

    18. 1 Sam 1:18“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.

    19. 1 Sam 1:19The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

    20. 1 Sam 1:20So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”

    21. 1 Sam 1:21Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,

    22. 1 Sam 1:22but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”

    23. 1 Sam 1:23“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

    24. 1 Sam 1:24Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

    25. 1 Sam 1:25And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

    26. 1 Sam 1:26“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.

    27. 1 Sam 1:27I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,

    28. 1 Sam 1:28I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 10Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
    • 11Judges 13:5For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
    • 17Mark 5:34“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”
    • 10Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
    • 10Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
    • 15Psalms 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
    • 17Judges 18:6And the priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over your journey.”
    • 10Psalms 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
    • 11Numbers 6:5For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
    • 17Psalms 20:3–5May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah
    • 18Ruth 2:13“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
    • 19Genesis 21:1Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
    • 8Ruth 4:15He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
    • 10Hebrews 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
    • 13Romans 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
    • 172 Kings 5:19“Go in peace,” said Elisha. But after Naaman had traveled a short distance,

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