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1Sa 1:11 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

vowed		Gen 28:20; Num 21:2; Num 30:3-8; Jdg 11:30; Ecc 5:4
look		Gen 29:32; Exd 4:31; 2Sa 16:12; Psa 25:18
remember		1Sa 1:19; Gen 8:1; Gen 30:22; Psa 132:1,2
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.
there		Num 6:5; Jdg 13:5

Correlating Passages

vowed

	Gen 28:20	And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
	Num 21:2	And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
	Num 30:3	If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth;
	Num 30:4	And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
	Num 30:5	But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
	Num 30:6	And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
	Num 30:7	And her husband heard [it,] and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
	Num 30:8	But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
	Jdg 11:30	And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
	Ecc 5:4	When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

look

	Gen 29:32	And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
	Exd 4:31	And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
	2Sa 16:12	It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
	Psa 25:18	Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

remember

	1Sa 1:19	And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
	Gen 8:1	And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
	Gen 30:22	And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
	Psa 132:1	A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, [and] all his afflictions:
	Psa 132:2	How he sware unto the LORD, [and] vowed unto the mighty [God] of Jacob;

there

	Num 6:5	All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth [himself] unto the LORD, he shall be holy, [and] shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
	Jdg 13:5	For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Samuel 1:11," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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