1 Samuel 1:21-28

Hannah Dedicates Samuel

21 When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
22 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.”[a]
23 “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[b] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
24 After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,[c] an ephah[d] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
25 When the bull had been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli,
26 and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
27 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.
28 So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there.

Cross References 8

  • 1. S ver 3
  • 2. S Genesis 28:20; Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 12:11
  • 3. ver 11,28; Exodus 13:2; Luke 2:22
  • 4. ver 17; S Genesis 25:21; Numbers 30:7
  • 5. Genesis 21:8
  • 6. Numbers 15:8-10; Deuteronomy 12:5; Joshua 18:1
  • 7. ver 11-13; 1 Samuel 2:20; Psalms 66:19-20
  • 8. S Judges 13:7; ver 11,22; Genesis 24:26,52

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls "always. I have dedicated him as a Nazirite—all the days of his life.”"
  • [b]. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac "your"
  • [c]. Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text "with three bulls"
  • [d]. That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
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