“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband, Elkanah, would ask. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” (A)

On one occasion, Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh.[a] The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.(B) 10 Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 LXX adds and presented herself before the Lord

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