On one of the family’s annual trips to Shiloh, a tearful Hannah earnestly prayed to God and vowed: “O Jehovah of armies, if you will without fail look upon the affliction of your slave girl and actually remember me, and you will not forget your slave girl and actually give to your slave girl a male offspring, I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life. ”
Ja Tu laipnīgi noraudzītos uz savas kalpones bēdām, un ja Tu mani atcerētos, un Tu arī neaizmirstu savu kalponi un piešķirtu savai kalponei dēlu, tad es to novēlētu uz visu viņa mūža laiku tam Kungam. ” ( 1. Samuēla 1: 9 — 11.)