“But 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.”
1 Samuel 1:22 (WEB)
Context Reading
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.” 23Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.” So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephahof meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.