1 Samuel 1:7-9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ Year after year, when she went up to the Lord’s house,^(A) 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? ’^(B)

⁹ 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.^(C)