Hannah’s Song of Thanksgiving

In the way of her prayer, God would save Hannah, according to His word by giving her a man-child. This was her confidence, which was not put to shame. She bare a son and "called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord." Yet the name Samuel is a compound of the Hebrew word shamah, to hear, and the noun el, God, so that the thought conveyed is that she named him "heard of God" because she asked him of the Lord. It indicates that she wanted her child to stand out in the mind...