“When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 1:20 (WEB)
Context Reading
18She said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more. 19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. 20When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel,saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.” 21The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow. 22But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”