1 Samuel 1:3-9

3This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Armies at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

4Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.

5But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the Lord had kept her from conceiving.

6Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

7Year after year, when she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way. Hannah would weep and would not eat.

8“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?”

9On one occasion, Hannah got up after they ate and drank at Shiloh. The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.