19 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at (A)Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord (B)remembered her. 20 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”[a]

Samuel Given to the Lord

21 The man Elkanah and all his house (C)went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard of God

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