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1 Samuel 1:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" 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. "

1 Samuel 1:20

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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.

21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.

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Hannah

  • Elkanah, father of Samuel Elkanah is the husband of Hannah.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:19
    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.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:19
  • Samuel Hannah is the mother of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:20
    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.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20

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Samuel

  • Elkanah, father of Samuel Elkanah is the father of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 1:20
    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.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:19
    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.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20
  • Hannah Hannah is the mother of Samuel.
    Source: 1 Samuel 1:20
    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.
    Read 1 Samuel 1:20

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Selected relationship data adapted from BibleData, Brady Stephenson (CC BY 4.0). Reviewed, translated and supplemented with Scripture references.

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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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