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1 Samuel · read by Alan Bartley
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1 Samuel 1
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Now 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.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.Read from NASB1995 · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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And 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.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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"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?"Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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So 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.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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And she made a vow, pleading, "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 come over his head."Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunkRead from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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and said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!"Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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"No, my lord," Hannah replied. "I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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Do 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."Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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"Go in peace," Eli replied, "and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him."Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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"May your maidservant find favor with you," said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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So 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."Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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but 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."Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth
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"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.Read from KJV · Bringing A New Thing To Birth