1 Samuel 2:21

When YHWH has looked after Hannah, then she conceives and bears three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel grows up with YHWH.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

In Context

20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “YHWH appoints seed of this woman for you, for the petition which she asked for YHWH”; and they have gone to their place.

22And Eli [is] very old, and has heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling [at] the opening of the Tent of Meeting,

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Cross References

Genesis 21:1And YHWH has looked after Sarah as He has said, and YHWH does to Sarah as He has spoken;

1 Samuel 1:19And they rise early in the morning, and bow themselves before YHWH, and turn back, and come to their house in Ramah, and Elkanah knows his wife Hannah, and YHWH remembers her;

1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grows up, and YHWH has been with him, and has not let any of his words fall to the earth;

Proverbs 3:4And find grace and good understanding || In the eyes of God and man.

Luke 1:80And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts until the day of his showing to Israel.

Luke 2:52and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with God and men.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:12-27

Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. ( b. c. 1130.) 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord . 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the… Read the whole commentary →

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