World English Bible
1 Samuel 1:18
“She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 1
Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh.
About 1 Samuel
The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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