1 Samuel 1:6-10
1 Samuel 1:6
Her rival, moreover, would provoke her bitterly to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
1 Samuel 1:7
And it happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.
1 Samuel 1:8
Then Elkanah her husband would say to her, “Hannah, why do you weep, and why do you not eat, and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
1 Samuel 1:9
Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord.
1 Samuel 1:10
She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.