1 Samuel 1 (NET)

1 Samuel 1:1¹There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 6:341 Chr 6:25-271 Sam 1:19Judg 17:1Ruth 1:21 Sam 17:121 Sam 9:5Judg 19:1Josh 24:33Judg 12:5

1 Samuel 1:2²He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 21:15-17Gen 16:1-2Gen 25:21Gen 29:23-29Gen 29:31Gen 4:23Judg 13:2Judg 8:30Luke 1:7Matt 19:8

1 Samuel 1:3³This man would go up from his city year after year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies at Shiloh. (It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the Lord ’s priests.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 2:41Deut 12:5-7Josh 18:1Exod 23:14Exod 34:231 Sam 1:211 Sam 1:9Deut 16:16Judg 18:311 Sam 2:12-17

1 Samuel 1:4⁴The day came, and Elkanah sacrificed. (Now he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:17-18Deut 16:11Deut 12:5-7Lev 3:4Lev 7:15

1 Samuel 1:5⁵But to Hannah he would give a double portion because he loved Hannah, although the Lord had not enabled her to have children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:2Gen 29:30-31Gen 16:1Gen 20:18Gen 45:22Gen 43:34

1 Samuel 1:6⁶Her rival used to aggravate her to the point of exasperation, just to irritate her, since the Lord had not enabled her to have children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 6:14Job 24:21Lev 18:18

1 Samuel 1:7⁷This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the Lord ’s house, Peninnah would offend her in that way.) So she cried and refused to eat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:19

1 Samuel 1:8⁸Then her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you so upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ruth 4:15Isa 54:6Job 6:141 Thess 5:14John 20:13John 20:15Ps 43:42 Kgs 8:122 Sam 12:16-17Isa 54:1

1 Samuel 1:9⁹So Hannah got up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. At the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the Lord ’s sanctuary.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:3Ps 27:4Ps 5:72 Sam 7:21 Sam 3:15Ps 29:9

1 Samuel 1:10¹⁰As for Hannah, she was very distressed. She prayed to the Lord and was, in fact, weeping.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:11Job 10:1Luke 22:44Ps 91:15Heb 5:7Isa 54:6Judg 21:2Isa 38:15Job 9:18Ps 50:15

1 Samuel 1:11¹¹She made a vow saying, “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you would truly look on the suffering of your servant, and would keep me in mind and not neglect your servant, and give your servant a male child, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 13:5Num 6:5Gen 29:32Eccl 5:41 Sam 1:19Gen 28:20Judg 11:30Ps 25:18Num 21:2Num 30:3-8

1 Samuel 1:12¹²It turned out that she did a great deal of praying before the Lord. Meanwhile Eli was watching her mouth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:17Jas 5:16Col 4:2Eph 6:18Luke 11:8-10Luke 18:1

1 Samuel 1:13¹³As for Hannah, she was speaking in her mind. Only her lips were moving; her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was a drunkard.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:26Acts 2:13Gen 24:42-45Ps 25:1Zech 9:151 Cor 13:7Neh 2:4

1 Samuel 1:14¹⁴Then he said to her, “How much longer do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:25Eph 4:31Job 11:14Job 22:23Job 8:2Josh 22:12-20Matt 7:1-3Prov 4:24Prov 6:9Ps 62:3

1 Samuel 1:15¹⁵But Hannah replied, “Not so, my lord! I am a woman under a great deal of stress. I haven’t drunk wine or beer. But I have poured out my soul before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 62:8Lam 2:19Ps 42:4Ps 142:2-3Ps 143:6Job 30:16Prov 15:1Prov 25:15

1 Samuel 1:16¹⁶Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman. It’s just that, to this point, I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:12Job 10:1-2Job 6:2-3Matt 12:34-351 Sam 10:271 Sam 25:25Deut 13:13

1 Samuel 1:17¹⁷Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 5:34Judg 18:6Ps 20:3-51 Sam 25:352 Kgs 5:19Luke 7:501 Chr 4:10Luke 8:481 Sam 29:7

1 Samuel 1:18¹⁸She said, “May I, your servant, find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and got something to eat. Her face no longer looked sad.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ruth 2:13Rom 15:13Eccl 9:7Gen 33:15Gen 33:8John 16:24Phil 4:6-7Gen 32:5

1 Samuel 1:19¹⁹They got up early the next morning. Then they worshiped the Lord and returned to their home at Ramathaim. Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord called her to mind.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:11 Sam 1:11Gen 30:22Gen 4:11 Sam 9:26Gen 8:1Luke 23:42Mark 1:35Ps 119:147Ps 25:7

1 Samuel 1:20²⁰Then Hannah became pregnant. In the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 41:51-52Exod 2:10Matt 1:21Exod 2:22Gen 16:11Gen 29:32-35Gen 30:6-21Gen 5:29Gen 4:25

1 Samuel 1:21²¹Then the man Elkanah and all his family went up to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:3Deut 12:11Josh 24:15Gen 18:19Ps 101:2

1 Samuel 1:22²²But Hannah did not go up with them, because she had told her husband, “Not until the boy is weaned. Then I will bring him so that he may appear before the Lord. And he will remain there from then on.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:111 Sam 1:28Luke 2:221 Sam 2:111 Sam 2:181 Sam 3:1Deut 16:16Lev 25:23Luke 2:41-42Exod 21:6

1 Samuel 1:23²³Then her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best. Stay until you have weaned him. Only may the Lord fulfill his promise.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:251 Sam 1:17Gen 21:7-8Isa 44:26Luke 11:27Matt 24:19Num 30:7-11Ps 22:9

1 Samuel 1:24²⁴Then she took him up with her as soon as she had weaned him, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She came to the Lord ’s house at Shiloh, and the boy was with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 15:9-101 Sam 4:3-4Josh 18:1Deut 12:5-6Deut 12:11Deut 16:16

1 Samuel 1:25²⁵They slaughtered the bull, then brought the boy to Eli.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 18:15-16Luke 2:22

1 Samuel 1:26²⁶She said, “My lord. Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:22 Kgs 2:42 Kgs 2:62 Kgs 4:301 Sam 17:551 Sam 20:32 Sam 11:112 Sam 14:19Gen 42:15

1 Samuel 1:27²⁷For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:15Matt 7:7Ps 118:51 Sam 1:11-13Ps 6:9Ps 66:19-20Ps 116:1-5

1 Samuel 1:28²⁸So I also dedicate him to the Lord. For all the days of his life he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then he bowed down there in worship to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:26Gen 24:521 Sam 1:112 Tim 3:15Gen 24:48