17Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.
And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. …
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof. I. It brought her to her meat. She ate and drank, 1 Sam. 1:9. She did not harden herself in sorrow, nor grow sullen when she was reproved for it; but, when she perceived her husband uneasy that she did not come and eat with them, she cheered up her own spirits as well as she could, and cam…
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