1 Samuel 1:7-20

7So it was year after year, whenever she went up to the House of Adonai, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

8Then her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you crying? Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

9After eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah got up. Now Eli the kohen was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the Temple of Adonai.

10While her soul was bitter, she prayed to Adonai and wept.

11So she made a vow and said, “Adonai-Tzva’ot, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your handmaid, remember me and not forget Your handmaid, but grant Your handmaid a son, then I will give him to Adonai all the days of his life and no razor will ever touch his head.”

12It came to pass, as she prayed long before Adonai, that Eli was watching her mouth.

13Now Hannah was praying in her heart—only her lips were moving, but her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

14Then Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

15But 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.

16Don’t consider your handmaid a wicked woman. For out of my great anguish and grief I’ve been praying until now.”

17Then 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.

19They 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.

20So 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.”