27For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
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And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)Here is, I. The return of Elkanah and his family to their own habitation, when the days appointed for the feast were over, 1 Sam. 1:19. Observe how they improved their time at the tabernacle. Every day they were there, even that which was fixed for their journey home, they worshipped God; and they rose up early to do it. It is good to begin the day with God. Let him that is the first have the firs…
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