1 SAMUEL 1:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.”
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband: Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and remain there forever—Hannah delays her pilgrimage to keep Samuel at home until weaning, after which she will offer him in perpetuity (*ad-olam*, forever) to the sanctuary. This sacrifice of her son mirrors Abraham's willingness to offer Isaac, though here the offering is vocational rather than sacrificial.
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