19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah.(A) Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered(B) her.

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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.

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20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son.(A) She named(B) him Samuel,[a](C) saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:20 Samuel sounds like the Hebrew for heard by God.

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.

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17 But he always went back to Ramah,(A) where his home was, and there he also held court(B) for Israel. And he built an altar(C) there to the Lord.

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17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.

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So all the elders(A) of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.(B)

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Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

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34 Then Samuel left for Ramah,(A) but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah(B) of Saul.

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34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed(A) him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord(B) came powerfully upon David.(C) Samuel then went to Ramah.

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13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

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