20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife:(A) “May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she[a] has given to the Lord.”(B) Then they would go home.

21 The Lord paid attention to Hannah’s need,(C) and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.(D)

22 Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel(E) and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 2:20 DSS; MT reads he

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