16Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.
17Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him.
18And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad.
19And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.
20Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.
21And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath.
22But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.
