15. But in response Hannah said, “No, my lord, I am a woman with an oppressed spirit! I haven’t been drinking wine or beer. Instead I’ve been pouring out my soul before Adonai.
16. Don’t consider your handmaid a wicked woman. For out of my great anguish and grief I’ve been praying until now.”
17. Then Eli responded, “Go in shalom, and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you asked of Him.”
18. “May your maidservant find favor in your eyes,” she said. So the woman went her way; she ate, and her countenance was no longer dejected.
19. They rose up early in the morning and worshipped before Adonai, then went back to their home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and Adonai remembered her.
20. So it came to pass at the turn of the year that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, “because I have asked Adonai for him.”
21. When the man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer the annual sacrifice to Adonai and to fulfill his vow offering,
22. Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “When the child is weaned, I will bring him, so he may appear before Adonai and stay there forever.”