Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house,(A) her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat. “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?”(B)

Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh.[a] Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s tabernacle.(C)

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Footnotes

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

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