3. This man went up out of his city annually to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts in Shiloh. And there the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord.
4. When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters.
5. But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.
6. Now her rival provoked her greatly, making her miserable because the Lord had closed her womb.
7. Thus it was yearly, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her. So Hannah wept and did not eat.
8. Then said Elkanah her husband to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? And why do you not eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
9. So Hannah arose after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a seat by the door of the tabernacle of the Lord.