“I prayed for this child, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 1 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.