Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

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Because

Genesis 4:25
Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Genesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
Genesis 16:11
Then the Angel of the Lord said to her:

You have conceived and will have a son.
You will name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard your cry of affliction.
Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”
Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; yes, He has heard me and given me a son,” and she named him Dan.
Genesis 41:51
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”
Exodus 2:10
When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Matthew 1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

General references

Genesis 30:17
God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
2 Kings 4:17
The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.

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