1 Samuel 1:19

“And they rose up in the morning early, etc.] Partly for devotion, and partly for the sake of their journey: and worshipped before the Lord; went up to the tabernacle, and prayed with their faces towards that part of it, the western part, where stood the ark of the Lord, the symbol of the divine Presence; and when they no doubt gave thanks for all the favours they had received there, and prayed for a safe and prosperous journey home, committing themselves to the care of divine Providence: and returned, and came to their house to Ramah; or “Ramatha”, the same with Ramathaim, (<090101>1 Samuel 1:1). Abarbinel thinks that Elkanah had two houses, one at Ramah for Peninnah, and another at Ramatha…”

“Remembered - Manifested his remembrance of her by the effect. 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 1:20”

“they rose: Sa1 9:26; Psa 5:3, Psa 55:17, Psa 119:147; Mar 1:35 knew: Gen 4:1 and the Lord: Sa1 1:11; Gen 8:1, Gen 21:1, Gen 30:22; Psa 25:7, Psa 136:23; Luk 23:42 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 1:20”

“Samuel's birth, and dedication to the Lord. - Sa1 1:19, Sa1 1:20. The next morning Elkanah returned home to Ramah (see at Sa1 1:1) with his two wives, having first of all worshipped before the Lord; after which he knew his wife Hannah, and Jehovah remembered her, i.e., heard her prayer. "In the revolution of the days," i.e., of the period of her conception and pregnancy, Hannah conceived and bare a son, whom she called Samuel; "for (she said) I have asked him of the Lord." The name שׁמוּאל (Σαμουήλ, lxx) is not formed from שׁמוּ = שׁם and אל, name of God (Ges. Thes. p. 1434), but from אל שׁמוּע, heard of God, a Deo exauditus, with an elision of the ע (see Ewald, 275, a., Not. 3); and the…”