1 Samuel 1:27

My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

In Context

26And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:

28So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

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Cross References

Numbers 6:8All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 4:10And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

Psalms 66:19But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 118:5I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

Matthew 7:7Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:20-28

The Birth of Samuel; Samuel Presented to the Lord. ( b. c. 1137.) 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord , and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her. 20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord . 21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly… Read the whole commentary →

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