1 Samuel 1:1-8, “There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the
hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of
Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other
Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. Year after year this man went up from
his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas,
the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice,
he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. But
to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb.
Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate
her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her
rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. Her husband Elkanah would say to her,
“Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean
more to you than ten sons?”