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." So in the course of timeThis phrase indicates the unfolding of God's divine timing. In Hebrew, the phrase suggests a process or a period during which God's promises and plans come to fruition. It reminds us that God's timing is perfect, even when it seems delayed from a human perspective. The waiting period for Hannah was a test of faith and patience, illustrating that God's plans often require us to trust in His timing rather than our own. Hannah conceived
The Hebrew root for "conceived" is "הרָה" (harah), which signifies the miraculous intervention of God in response to Hannah's fervent prayers. This conception is not merely a biological event but a divine act of grace. It underscores the power of prayer and God's ability to bring life and hope into seemingly barren situations. Hannah's conception is a testament to God's faithfulness and His ability to answer the deepest desires of our hearts. and gave birth to a son
The birth of a son in ancient Israel was a significant event, often seen as a blessing and a continuation of the family line. Sons were particularly valued for their role in inheritance and family legacy. This phrase highlights the fulfillment of God's promise to Hannah, transforming her sorrow into joy. It also foreshadows the significant role her son, Samuel, will play in the history of Israel as a prophet and leader. She named him Samuel
The name "Samuel" in Hebrew is "שְׁמוּאֵל" (Shemuel), which can be interpreted as "heard by God" or "asked of God." Naming in the biblical context often reflects the circumstances of birth or the parents' hopes for the child. By naming her son Samuel, Hannah acknowledges God's response to her prayers and sets a foundation for Samuel's identity as one who is dedicated to the Lord. saying, 'Because I have asked for him from the LORD.'
This phrase reveals Hannah's deep faith and gratitude. The Hebrew word for "asked" is "שָׁאַל" (sha'al), emphasizing the personal and earnest nature of her petition to God. Hannah's statement is a public testimony of God's faithfulness and a reminder of the power of prayer. It also reflects the covenant relationship between God and His people, where God hears and responds to the cries of His faithful servants. Hannah's acknowledgment of God's provision serves as an inspiration for believers to trust in God's willingness to hear and answer their prayers. Persons / Places / Events 1. HannahA devout woman who was initially barren. Her deep faith and fervent prayers to God for a child are central to this account. 2. ElkanahHannah's husband, who loved her deeply despite her initial barrenness and had another wife, Peninnah, who had children. 3. SamuelThe son born to Hannah, whose name means "heard by God" or "asked of God," reflecting Hannah's prayer and God's response. 4. ShilohThe place where the tabernacle was located and where Hannah prayed fervently for a child. 5. The LORD (Yahweh)The covenant God of Israel, who hears and answers Hannah's prayer, demonstrating His faithfulness and power. Teaching Points The Power of Persistent PrayerHannah's account teaches us the importance of persistent and heartfelt prayer. Despite her initial barrenness, she continued to seek God earnestly. God's FaithfulnessThis passage highlights God's faithfulness in answering prayers according to His will. Hannah's experience reminds us that God hears and responds to the cries of His people. Naming as a TestimonyThe name "Samuel" serves as a testimony to God's answer to prayer. Our lives and actions can similarly testify to God's work in our lives. Trusting God's TimingHannah conceived "in the course of time," reminding us that God's timing is perfect, even when it requires patience and trust on our part. Dedication to GodHannah's vow to dedicate Samuel to the Lord reflects a heart of gratitude and commitment. We are encouraged to dedicate our blessings back to God in service and worship. Bible Study Questions 1. How does Hannah's approach to prayer challenge or inspire your own prayer life? 2. In what ways can you see God's faithfulness in your life, similar to how He was faithful to Hannah? 3. How can the meaning of Samuel's name ("heard by God") encourage you in your current circumstances? 4. What are some areas in your life where you need to trust God's timing more fully? 5. How can you dedicate the blessings you receive from God back to Him in service and worship? Connections to Other Scriptures Genesis 21The birth of Isaac to Sarah, another woman who was initially barren, showing God's power to fulfill His promises. Luke 1The birth of John the Baptist to Elizabeth, who was also barren, highlighting God's ability to bring life and fulfill His purposes. Philippians 4:6-7Encourages believers to present their requests to God with thanksgiving, similar to Hannah's approach in prayer. James 5:16Emphasizes the power of a righteous person's prayer, as demonstrated by Hannah's effective prayer life. People Eli, Elihu, Elkanah, Ephah, Hannah, Hophni, Jeroham, Peninnah, Phinehas, Samuel, Tohu, ZuphPlaces Ramah, Ramathaim-zophim, ShilohTopics Arrived, Bare, Beareth, Birth, Bore, Calleth, Child, Conceived, Conceiveth, Due, Hannah, Named, Pass, Prayer, Revolution, Samuel, Saying, WhereforeDictionary of Bible Themes 1 Samuel 1:20 1416 miracles, nature of
5044 names, giving of
5663 childbirth
5668 children, responsibilities to parents
5720 mothers, examples
8618 prayerfulness
8636 asking 1 Samuel 1:1-20 5225 barrenness
5733 pregnancy 1 Samuel 1:9-20 5744 wife 1 Samuel 1:9-28 5745 women 1 Samuel 1:10-20 8614 prayer, answers 1 Samuel 1:11-20 5468 promises, human 1 Samuel 1:19-20 1305 God, activity of
8670 remembering 1 Samuel 1:19-28 8629 worship, times Library Of Self-Annihilation
Of Self-Annihilation Supplication and sacrifice are comprehended in prayer, which, according to S. John, is "an incense, the smoke whereof ascendeth unto God;" therefore it is said in the Apocalypse that "unto the Angel was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints'' (Chap. viii. 3). Prayer is the effusion of the heart in the Presence of God: "I have poured out my soul before God" saith the mother of Samuel. (1 Sam. i. 15) The prayer of the wise men at the feet of …
Madame Guyon—A Short and Easy Method of PrayerPrayer and Sacrifice Explained by the Similitude of a Perfume --Our Annihilation in this Sacrifice --Solidity and Fruitfulness of this Prayer as Set Forth in The
Prayer ought to be both petition and sacrifice. Prayer, according to the testimony of St John, is an incense, whose perfume rises to God. Therefore it is said in the Revelation (chap. viii. 3), that an angel held a censer, which contained the incense of the prayers of saints. Prayer is an outpouring of the heart in the presence of God. "I have poured out my soul before the Lord," said the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. i. 15). Thus the prayers of the Magi at the feet of the infant Jesus in the stable of …
Jeanne Marie Bouvières—A Short Method Of Prayer And Spiritual Torrents Home Dedication.
"The rose was rich in bloom on Sharon's plain, When a young mother with her first born thence Went up to Zion, for the boy was vowed Unto the Temple-service; by the hand She led him, and her silent soul, the while, Oft as the dewy laughter of his eye Met her sweet serious glance, rejoiced to think That aught so pure, so beautiful, was hers, To bring before her God!" Beautiful thought, and thrice beautiful deed,--fresh from the pure fount of maternal piety! The Hebrew mother consecrating her first-born …
Samuel Philips—The Christian Home John Newton 1Sam 1:10,18
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John Newton—Olney Hymns Hwochow Women's Bible Training School
COURSE OF STUDY FIRST TERM Book of Genesis. Gospel according to St. Luke or St. Mark. Acts of the Apostles, chapters i. to ix. "A Synopsis of the Central Themes of the Holy Bible." Reading Lessons, with necessary Explanation and Writing of Chinese Character. Arithmetic. Singing and Memorisation of Hymns. SECOND TERM Book of Exodus, Numbers, and 1 Samuel i. to xvi. The Gospel according to St. John. The Epistle of St James. "A Synopsis of the Central Themes of the Holy Bible"--(continued). Reading …
A. Mildred Cable—The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Love of the Holy Spirit in Us.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not."--Matt. xxvii. 37. The Scripture teaches not only that the Holy Spirit dwells in us, and with Him Love, but also that He sheds abroad that Love in our hearts. This shedding abroad does not refer to the coming of the Holy Spirit's Person, for a person can not be shed abroad. He comes, takes possession, and dwells in us; but that which is shed abroad …
Abraham Kuyper—The Work of the Holy Spirit The Prophet Jonah.
It has been asserted without any sufficient reason, that Jonah is older than Hosea, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah,--that he is the oldest among the prophets whose written monuments have been preserved to us. The passage in 2 Kings xiv. 25, where it is said, that Jonah, the son of Amittai the prophet, prophesied to Jeroboam the happy success of his arms, and the restoration of the ancient boundaries of Israel, and that this prophecy was confirmed by the event, cannot decide in favour of this assertion, …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament And V the Kingdom Undivided and the Kingdom Divided
THE HISTORICAL BOOKS: I and II Samuel. I and II Kings. I and II Chronicles. NOTE.--As these three pairs of books are so closely related in their historical contents, it is deemed best to study them together, though they overlap the two divisions of IV and V. I. CHARTS Chart A. General Contents +--+ " I AND II SAMUEL " +-------------+-----+------+ "Samuel "Saul "David " +-------------+-----+------+----------+ " " " " I AND II KINGS "NOTE.--Biblical …
Frank Nelson Palmer—A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Divers Matters.
I. Beth-cerem, Nehemiah 3:14. "The stones, as well of the altar, as of the ascent to the altar, were from the valley of Beth-cerem, which they digged out beneath the barren land. And thence they are wont to bring whole stones, upon which the working iron came not." The fathers of the traditions, treating concerning the blood of women's terms, reckon up five colours of it; among which that, "which is like the water of the earth, out of the valley of Beth-cerem."--Where the Gloss writes thus, "Beth-cerem …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Ramah. Ramathaim Zophim. Gibeah.
There was a certain Ramah, in the tribe of Benjamin, Joshua 18:25, and that within sight of Jerusalem, as it seems, Judges 19:13; where it is named with Gibeah:--and elsewhere, Hosea 5:8; which towns were not much distant. See 1 Samuel 22:6; "Saul sat in Gibeah, under a grove in Ramah." Here the Gemarists trifle: "Whence is it (say they) that Ramah is placed near Gibea? To hint to you, that the speech of Samuel of Ramah was the cause, why Saul remained two years and a half in Gibeah." They blindly …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica The King --Continued.
The years thus well begun are, in the historical books, characterized mainly by three events, namely, the bringing up of the ark to the newly won city of David, Nathan's prophecy of the perpetual dominion of his house, and his victories over the surrounding nations. These three hinges of the narrative are all abundantly illustrated in the psalms. As to the first, we have relics of the joyful ceremonial connected with it in two psalms, the fifteenth and twenty-fourth, which are singularly alike not …
Alexander Maclaren—The Life of David Nature of Covenanting.
A covenant is a mutual voluntary compact between two parties on given terms or conditions. It may be made between superiors and inferiors, or between equals. The sentiment that a covenant can be made only between parties respectively independent of one another is inconsistent with the testimony of Scripture. Parties to covenants in a great variety of relative circumstances, are there introduced. There, covenant relations among men are represented as obtaining not merely between nation and nation, …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting I Will Pray with the Spirit and with the Understanding Also-
OR, A DISCOURSE TOUCHING PRAYER; WHEREIN IS BRIEFLY DISCOVERED, 1. WHAT PRAYER IS. 2. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT. 3. WHAT IT IS TO PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT AND WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO. WRITTEN IN PRISON, 1662. PUBLISHED, 1663. "For we know not what we should pray for as we ought:--the Spirit--helpeth our infirmities" (Rom 8:26). ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. There is no subject of more solemn importance to human happiness than prayer. It is the only medium of intercourse with heaven. "It is …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 Samuel
Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate, …
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