1 Samuel 1:11 (KJV)

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And she vowed a vow and said O LORD of hosts if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid and remember me and not forget thine handmaid but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life and there shall no razor come upon his head

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Cross-references

vowed. Ge 28:20 Nu 21:2 Nu 30:3-8 Re 11:19 Ec 5:4

look. Ge 29:32 Ex 4:31 2Sa 16:12 Ps 25:18

remember. 1Sa 1:19 Ge 8:1 Ge 30:22 Ps 132:1 Ps 132:2

there. Nu 6:5 Re 12:5

a man child. Heb. seed of men. I will give.Samuel, as a descendent of Levi, was the Lord's property, from twenty-five years of age till fifty; but the vow here implies that he should be consecrated to the Lord from his infancy to his death, and that he should not only act as a Levite, but as a Nazarite.

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