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Hannah's prayer; Samuel born and given to God

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True span4004 BC – AD 100
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1 Samuel 1:1–28Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an…1 Samuel 3:1–21The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

SamuelHannahEliShiloh ›
Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

None of the public-domain chronologies consulted (ISBE, Easton's, Ussher) gives this event a year; it is placed here by its order in the narrative.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
Placed by sequence — no public-domain source dates this. The event keeps its place in the sequence of the narrative, and no year is shown for it.

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