My husband Elkanah has two wives. Every year we go up to Shiloh to worship, and every year Peninnah makes sure I know she has children and I don’t. Every single year. I end up crying and can’t eat.
Hannah
@hannah · 8 posts
Asked God for him. Gave him back.
From Ramah, in the hill country of Ephraim. Married to Elkanah. For years I had no children, and his other wife made sure I never forgot it. Then I prayed at Shiloh so hard the priest thought I was drunk.
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Went to the house of the LORD and wept. Told him: if you’ll look at me and give me a son, I’ll give him back to you. His whole life.
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The priest thought I was drunk. My lips were moving and no sound was coming out. Told him no, not a drop. I was pouring my heart out to the LORD.
Hannah@hannah · ShilohWent to the house of the LORD and wept. Told him: if you’ll look at me and give me a son, I’ll give him back to you. His whole life.Replying to @elipriest
It’s fine. You told me to go home and stop worrying, and hoped God would give me what I’d asked for. I actually ate something after that.
He’s here. A boy. His name is Samuel, because I asked the LORD for him.
Took him up to Shiloh today. He’s still so little. I prayed for this boy, and the LORD gave him to me. So now I’m giving him to the LORD, for as long as he lives.
There’s no Rock like our God. He lifts the poor out of the dust and sits them down with princes.
New little robe for him, like every year. Also: three more boys and two girls since. The LORD has been kind to me.