Hannah’s prayer is impressive when you stop to consider what she said. Of course, I am talking about Hannah, Samuel’s mom. We don’t know much about her other than she was an amazing woman! She was one of two wives, you know. That is never a desirable situation. Whenever I think about multiple wive situations in the Bible, some great names come to me. There was Abraham, Jacob, Moses, the champ Solomon, and Elkana, Hanah’s husband. Hanah had a rival in Peninnah, the other woman. What exacerbated things was that Peninnah had children regularly, and Hannah had none because she couldn’t have any. The Bible goes so far as to say that the Lord had closed her womb (1:5). There seemed to be some divine purpose behind Hannah’s fertility. This scenario in Bible times was tragic, and again there are several examples of well-timed sterility in the Old and New Testaments. Sarah, Rebeca, Rachel, Elizabeth and others whose walk with God was tested in their inability to have children. What Hannah did
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