Samuel

“And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.”

“And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.””

“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.””

“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.”

“At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.”

“Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.”

“Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.”

“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.”