2. He had two wives, the first named Hannah and the second Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah was childless.
3. This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.
4. Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he always gave portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to each of her sons and daughters.
5. But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the Lord had kept her from conceiving.
6. Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
7. Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.
8. “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? ”