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1 Samuel 1:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" 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. "

1 Samuel 1:18

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16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

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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From This Chapter

1 Samuel 1:1

"Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:"

1 Samuel 1:2

"And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children."

1 Samuel 1:3

"And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there."

1 Samuel 1:4

"And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:"

1 Samuel 1:5

"But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb."

1 Samuel 1:6

"And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb."

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