1 Samuel 1:23

New International Version

“Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:25

“And now, Lord God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised,

1 Kings 3:21

The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”

Psalm 22:9

Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

Isaiah 44:26

who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘It shall be inhabited,’ of the towns of Judah, ‘They shall be rebuilt,’ and of their ruins, ‘I will restore them,’

Numbers 30:12

But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the Lord will release her.

Matthew 24:19

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

Luke 11:27

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”

1 Samuel 1:17

Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”

1 Samuel 14:36

Saul said, “Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive.” “Do whatever seems best to you,” they replied. But the priest said, “Let us inquire of God here.”

1 Samuel 14:40

Saul then said to all the Israelites, “You stand over there; I and Jonathan my son will stand over here.” “Do what seems best to you,” they replied.