1 Samuel 1:21-28 - Samuel Given To The Lord
21 And Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the LORD, both the offerings due for the feast and also his vows. 22 But Hannah went not up, for she said unto her husband, "I will tarry until the lad be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and there abide forever."
23 And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seemeth thee best: tarry until thou hast weaned him, only the LORD make good his saying." And so the woman abode and gave her son suck, until she weaned him. 24 And then she took him with her, when she had weaned him, with three bullocks and an ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him into the house of the LORD in Shiloh, how be it the child was yet young. 25 And they slew the bullocks and brought in the lad to Eli,
26 and then she said, "Oh my lord, as truly as thy soul liveth my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. 27 And for this lad I prayed, and the LORD hath given me my desire which I asked of him: 28 and therefore I also lend him the LORD, as long as he may be lent the LORD." And so they prayed there unto the LORD.