1 Samuel 1:27

for this youth I prayed, and Jehovah doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him;

Young's Literal Translation

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 saith, 'O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I [am] the woman who stood with thee in this [place], to pray unto Jehovah;

28and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived — he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.

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Cross References

Numbers 6:8all days of his separation he [is] holy to Jehovah.

1 Chronicles 4:10And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, 'If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept [me] from evil — not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked.

Psalms 66:19But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 118:5From the straitness I called Jah, Jah answered me in a broad place.

Matthew 7:7'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened 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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