But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”
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