1 Samuel 1:27
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition which I asked of Him;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
Cross References
Numbers 6:8All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.
1 Chronicles 4:10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying: 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Thy hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest work deliverance from evil, that it may not pain me!' And God granted him that which he requested.
Psalms 66:19But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 118:5Out of my straits I called upon the LORD; He answered me with great enlargement.
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 →