As he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she taunted her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

It happened, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli saw her mouth.

But Hannah did not go up; for she said to her husband, "Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and stay there forever. I will offer him as a Nazirite forever, all the days of his life."