Verse 23

Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 7:25 : 25 Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have spoken.
  • Ps 22:9 : 9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
  • Isa 44:26 : 26 who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
  • Luke 11:27 : 27 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"
  • Gen 21:7-8 : 7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age." 8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
  • Num 30:7-9 : 7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. 8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her. 9 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her. 10 If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.
  • 1 Sam 1:17 : 17 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.