Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
1 Samuel 1:1-3 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, …
1 Samuel 1:4-8 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his …
1 Samuel 1:9-11 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk…
1 Samuel 1:12-18 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that …
1 Samuel 1:19-23 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the …
1 Samuel 1:24-28 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three …
Ramathaim-zophim This ancient town, now called Ramla, is, according to Phocas, about thirty-six miles west of Jerusalem, and, according to modern travellers, about none miles from Joppa and a league from Lydda, between which it is situated. It is built on a rising ground, on a rich plain, and contains about two thousand families.
1 Samuel 1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the …
Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named …
Arimathea
mount
Judges 17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Judges 19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel…
Elkanah
1 Chronicles 6:25-27,34 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth…
Zuph
1 Samuel 9:5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant …
Ephrathite
1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose …
Judges 12:5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: …
Ruth 1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, …
1 Kings 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's …
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
two
Genesis 4:19,23 And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and …
Genesis 29:23-29 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, …
Judges 8:30 And Gideon had three score and ten sons of his body begotten: for …
Matthew 19:8 He said to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered …
but
Genesis 16:1,2 Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, …
Genesis 25:21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: …
Genesis 29:31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but …
Judges 13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, …
Luke 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they …
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
yearly [heb] from year to year
Exodus 23:14,17 Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year…
Exodus 34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the …
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD …
Luke 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
to worship
Deuteronomy 12:5-7,11-14 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
Shiloh
1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk…
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together …
Psalm 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Jeremiah 7:12-14 But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name …
And the
1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk…
1 Samuel 2:12-17,34 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD…
1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the …
1 Samuel 4:4,11,17,18 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the …
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
a worthy portion. or, a double portion The Hebrew phrase, manah achath appayim, is correctly rendered by Gesenius, (), `a portion for two persons, a double portion;' for aph in Hebrew, and () in Greek, which literally mean a face, are used for a person.
Genesis 43:34 And he took and sent messes to them from before him: but Benjamin's …
Genesis 45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin …
he loved
Genesis 29:30,31 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than …
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they …
shut up
Genesis 20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, …
Genesis 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in …
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
why weepest
2 Samuel 12:16,17 David therefore sought God for the child; and David fasted, and went …
2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? And he answered, Because I know …
Job 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but …
John 20:13,15 And they say to her, Woman, why weep you? She said to them, Because …
1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …
am not
Ruth 4:15 And he shall be to you a restorer of your life, and a nourisher of …
Psalm 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, …
Isaiah 54:1,6 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, …
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
in bitterness of soul [heb] bitter of soul
Ruth 1:20 And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty …
2 Samuel 17:8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be …
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
Isaiah 38:15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done …
Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, …
Lamentations 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
prayed
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …
Psalm 91:15 He shall call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in …
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was …
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…
wept sore
Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, …
Judges 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and stayed there till even …
2 Samuel 13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, …
2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you …
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …
Jeremiah 22:10 Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for …
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.
vowed
Genesis 28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep …
Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed …
Numbers 30:3-8 If a woman also vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, …
Judges 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without …
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure …
look
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben: …
Exodus 4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited …
2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the …
Psalm 25:18 Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
remember
1 Samuel 1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the …
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle …
Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Psalm 132:1,2 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions…
a man child [heb] seed of men
I will give Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.
there
Numbers 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come …
Judges 13:5 For, see, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall …
And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
spake
Genesis 24:42-45 And I came this day to the well, and said, O LORD God of my master …
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed …
Psalm 25:1 To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what …
she had
Zechariah 9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue …
Acts 2:13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
1 Corinthians 13:7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
How long
Joshua 22:12-20 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation …
Job 8:2 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words …
Psalm 62:3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain …
Proverbs 6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
Matthew 7:1-3 Judge not, that you be not judged…
put away
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put …
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Ephesians 4:25,31 Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: …
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
a daughter
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And …
1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: …
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, …
out of
Job 6:2,3 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in …
Job 10:1,2 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
Matthew 12:34,35 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …
complaint. or, meditation
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
Go
1 Samuel 25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and …
1 Samuel 29:7 Why now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords …
Judges 18:6 And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your …
2 Kings 5:19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
Mark 5:34 And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you whole; go in …
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
Luke 8:48 And he said to her, Daughter, be of good comfort: your faith has …
the God
1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would …
Psalm 20:3-5 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah…
And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
Let thine
Genesis 32:5 And I have oxen, and donkeys, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: …
Genesis 33:8,15 And he said, What mean you by all this drove which I met? And he …
Ruth 2:13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for that …
went her
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a …
John 16:24 Till now have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, …
Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, …
Philippians 4:6,7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication …
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.
they rose
1 Samuel 9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the …
Psalm 5:3 My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will …
Psalm 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and …
Psalm 119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, …
knew
Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and …
and the Lord
1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed …
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle …
Genesis 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah …
Genesis 30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
Psalm 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according …
Psalm 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures for ever:
Luke 23:42 And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
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.
when the time was come about [heb] in revolution of days
Samuel. that is, Asked of God
Because
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his …
Genesis 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning …
Genesis 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said to her, Behold, you are with child …
Genesis 30:6-21 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, …
Genesis 41:51,52 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said …
Exodus 2:10,22 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and …
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: …
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
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.
then
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD …
Luke 2:22,41,42 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses …
and there
1 Samuel 1:11,28 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed …
1 Samuel 2:11,18 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister …
1 Samuel 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word …
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: …
Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that …
for ever
Exodus 21:6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring …
Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you …
Joshua 4:7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off …
Psalm 110:4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever …
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, …
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
Do what
Numbers 30:7-11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that …
the Lord
2 Samuel 7:25 And now, O LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your …
Isaiah 44:26 That confirms the word of his servant, and performes the counsel …
son suck
Genesis 21:7,8 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should have …
Psalm 22:9 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope …
Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of …
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
A.M.
Numbers 15:9,10 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth …
Deuteronomy 12:5,6,11 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD …
three bullocks The LXX., Syriac, and Arabic, read `a bullock of three years old;' which is probably correct, as we read (verse
1 Samuel 1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
house
1 Samuel 4:3,4 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel …
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together …
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
as thy soul
1 Samuel 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said …
1 Samuel 20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
Genesis 42:15 Hereby you shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not …
2 Samuel 11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in …
2 Samuel 14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? …
2 Kings 2:2,4,6 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has …
2 Kings 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your …
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
For this
1 Samuel 1:11-13 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed …
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …
and the Lord
Psalm 66:19 But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 116:1-5 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications…
Psalm 118:5 I called on the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me …
1 John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatever we ask, we know that we …
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
lent him. or, returned him, whom I have obtained by petition, to the Lord. The word {hishhilteehoo}, ` I have lent him,' is the Hiphil conjugation of {sahal}, `he asked,' (ver
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD has given me my petition which …
he shall be. or, he whom I have obtained by petition shall be returned.
he worshipped
Genesis 24:26,48,52 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD…
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures…
