
1 Samuel 1:18 (Episode 224)
40 Minutes In The Old Testament
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The Unspoken Prayer Request
This is similar to you saying telling God if you give me a daughter, I'll make her a nun. That's basically what she's saying, right? I want a son and she does end up keeping him until he's weaned. But after that, he's turned entirely over to the reward service. So she makes the vow and it says that as she was praying before the Lord that Eli, so she evidently right, like right in front of the tabernacle and Eli's watching her. He says he's watching her mouth move and Hannah was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. And so Eli assumes that she was drunk
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