1 Samuel 1:11

New American Bible - revised edition

and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”

Cross References

Genesis 28:20

Jacob then made this vow: “If God will be with me and protect me on this journey I am making and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 29:32

Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben; for she said, “It means, ‘The Lord saw my misery; surely now my husband will love me.’”

Genesis 30:22

Then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and made her fruitful.

Genesis 8:1

God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

Psalm 25:18

Look upon my affliction and suffering; take away all my sins.

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had observed the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they knelt and bowed down.

Proverbs 31:2

What are you doing, my son! what are you doing, son of my womb; what are you doing, son of my vows!

Ecclesiastes 5:4

It is better not to make a vow than make it and not fulfill it.

Leviticus 27:2

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When anyone makes a vow to the Lord with respect to the value of a human being,

Numbers 21:2

Israel then made this vow to the Lord: “If you deliver this people into my hand, I will put their cities under the ban.”

Numbers 6:11

The priest shall offer up the one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, thus making atonement for them for the sin they committed with respect to the corpse. On the same day they shall reconsecrate their heads

Numbers 6:5

While they are under the nazirite vow, no razor shall touch their hair. Until the period of their dedication to the Lord is over, they shall be holy, letting the hair of their heads grow freely.

Numbers 6:8

As long as they are nazirites they are holy to the Lord.

Judges 11:30

Jephthah made a vow to the Lord. “If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said,

Judges 13:5

for you will conceive and bear a son. No razor shall touch his head, for the boy is to be a nazirite for God from the womb. It is he who will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 1:10

In her bitterness she prayed to the Lord, weeping freely,

1 Samuel 1:12

As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli watched her mouth,

1 Samuel 1:19

Early the next morning they worshiped before the Lord, and then returned to their home in Ramah. When they returned Elkanah had intercourse with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. Hannah Bears a Son.

1 Samuel 1:22

Hannah did not go, explaining to her husband, “Once the child is weaned, I will take him to appear before the Lord and leave him there forever.”

1 Samuel 1:27

I prayed for this child, and the Lord granted my request.

1 Samuel 1:28

Now I, in turn, give him to the Lord; as long as he lives, he shall be dedicated to the Lord.” Then they worshiped there before the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:20

And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, as they were leaving for home. He would say, “May the Lord repay you with children from this woman for the gift she has made to the Lord!”