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Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
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God Rewards Sacrificial Giving
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon emphasize that Hannah gave her most precious gift to God and was blessed with five more children in return. This is presented as a powerful spiritual principle: you cannot out-give God. Sacrificial giving is not a loss but an investment that the Lord honors with abundant blessings, paying what Spurgeon calls 'good interest on all His loans.'
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1 Samuel
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19th Century
Anglican
The Service of the boy Samuel in the Sanctuary—The Dissolute Life of the Sons of Eli—The Doom of the House of Ithamar.
Baptist
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife Not only the first time they brought Samuel to him, and left him with him; but …
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Presbyterian
Samuel, being devoted to the Lord in a special manner, was from a child employed about the sanctuary in the services he was capable of. As he did t…
