1 Samuel 1:20
Good News Translation
So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, and explained, "I asked the LORD for him."

New Revised Standard Version
In due time Hannah conceived and bore a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
with a son. She named him Samuel because she had asked the LORD for him.

New American Bible
She conceived and, at the end of her pregnancy, bore a son whom she named Samuel. “Because I asked the LORD for him.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.

Genesis 4:25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.

Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noe, saying: This same shall comfort us from the works and labours of our hands on the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

Genesis 16:11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

Genesis 30:6-21 And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan. . . .

Genesis 41:51,52 And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house. . . .

Exodus 2:10,22 And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water. . . .

Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.

Context
The Birth of Samuel
19And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her. 20And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.21And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:21
And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.

Hebrews 11:32
And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

Genesis 30:22
The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 41:51
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.

Genesis 41:52
And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

Exodus 2:10
And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

Exodus 2:22
And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

1 Samuel 1:19
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