1 Samuel 1:22

but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”

Majority Standard Bible

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

21Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,

23“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

Joshua 4:7you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

1 Samuel 1:28I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.

1 Samuel 2:18Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

Psalms 23:6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalms 110:4The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

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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