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Samuel’s family: Hannah and Elkanah
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Hannah and Elkanah are Samuel’s parents. This chart follows that connection; it does not include every member of Elkanah’s household.
In focusElkanah, father of Samuel
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Hannah 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.
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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 1:19Wherefore 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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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.
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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 1:19Wherefore 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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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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