Ruth 4:9   (Read all of Ruth 4)

Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

Ruth 4:10   (Read all of Ruth 4)

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

Ruth 4:11   (Read all of Ruth 4)

Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

Ruth 4:12   (Read all of Ruth 4)

Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah."

Ruth 4:14   (Read all of Ruth 4)

The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!

Ruth 4:15   (Read all of Ruth 4)

He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."

1 Samuel 1:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

Her husband Elkanah would say to her, "Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?"

1 Samuel 1:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

And she made a vow, saying, "Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head."

1 Samuel 1:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

and said to her, "How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine."

1 Samuel 1:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief."

1 Samuel 1:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

Eli answered, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him."

1 Samuel 1:18   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

She said, "May your servant find favor in your eyes." Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.

1 Samuel 1:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

"Do what seems best to you," her husband Elkanah told her. "Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word." So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

1 Samuel 1:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

1 Samuel 1:26   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

and she said to him, "Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

Then Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.

1 Samuel 2:2   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

"There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

1 Samuel 2:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

"Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.

1 Samuel 2:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

But even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, "Give the priest some meat to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw."

1 Samuel 2:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

If the person said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want," the servant would answer, "No, hand it over now; if you don't, I'll take it by force."

1 Samuel 2:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord's sight, for they were treating the Lord's offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, "May the Lord give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the Lord." Then they would go home.

1 Samuel 2:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

So he said to them, "Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours.

1 Samuel 2:27   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: 'Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor's family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh?