Quotes about Devotion
So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:9
As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.
— 1 Samuel 1:12
Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
— 1 Samuel 1:13
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:15
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
— 1 Samuel 1:16
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
— 1 Samuel 1:19
but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
— 1 Samuel 1:22
Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
— 1 Samuel 1:24
And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.
— 1 Samuel 1:25
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
— 1 Samuel 1:27
I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
— 1 Samuel 1:28
Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
— 1 Samuel 2:19