1 Samuel 1:22

But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.

In Context

21And Elcana her husband went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.

23And Elcana her husband said to her: Do what seemeth good to thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil his word. So the woman stayed at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:23The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Joshua 4:7You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the same: therefore were these atones set for a monument of the children of Israel for ever.

1 Samuel 1:28Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said:

1 Samuel 2:18But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.

Psalms 23:6And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Psalms 110:4The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

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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