Hannah prays and Samuel is born
Childless Hannah wept and prayed at the sanctuary in Shiloh, vowing to give a son to the LORD. Eli blessed her, the LORD remembered her, and she bore Samuel, whose name recalled that she had asked for him from the LORD (1 Samuel 1:1-20).
Before Samuel's call and the ark's capture in 1116 BC
1Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. 3Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
