| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1There was a man from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He had two wives, the first named Hannah and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the LORD's priests. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the LORD had kept her from conceiving. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Whenever she went up to the LORD's house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Hannah, why are you crying?" her husband Elkanah asked. "Why won't you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh. Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD's tabernacle. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Making a vow, she pleaded, " LORD of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12While she continued praying in the LORD's presence, Eli watched her lips. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Hannah was praying silently, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. Eli thought she was drunk |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and scolded her, "How long are you going to be drunk? Get rid of your wine!" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"No, my lord," Hannah replied. "I am a woman with a broken heart. I haven't had any wine or beer; I've been pouring out my heart before the LORD. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Don't think of me as a wicked woman; I've been praying from the depth of my anguish and resentment." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Eli responded, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the petition you've requested from Him." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"May your servant find favor with you," she replied. Then Hannah went on her way; she ate and no longer looked despondent. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, because she said, "I requested him from the LORD." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the LORD, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Hannah did not go and explained to her husband, "After the child is weaned, I'll take him to appear in the LORD's presence and to stay there permanently." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Her husband Elkanah replied, "Do what you think is best, and stay here until you've weaned him. May the LORD confirm your word." So Hannah stayed there and nursed her son until she weaned him. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull, half a bushel of flour, and a jar of wine. Though the boy was still young, she took him to the LORD's house at Shiloh. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then they slaughtered the bull and brought the boy to Eli. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Please, my lord," she said, "as sure as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD gave me what I asked Him for, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I now give the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is given to the LORD." Then he bowed in worship to the LORD there. |
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