1 Samuel 1:1-8 (The Message)  View In My Bible 1 There once was
a man who lived in Ramathaim. He was descended from the old Zuph
family in the Ephraim hills. His name was Elkanah. (He was
connected with the Zuphs from Ephraim through his father
Jeroham, his grandfather Elihu, and his great-grandfather Tohu.)
2 He had two wives. The first was Hannah; the second was
Peninnah. Peninnah had children; Hannah did not. 3 Every year
this man went from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and
offer a sacrifice to God-of-the-Angel-Armies. Eli and his two
sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the priests of God there. 4
When Elkanah sacrificed, he passed helpings from the sacrificial
meal around to his wife Peninnah and all her children, 5 but he
always gave an especially generous helping to Hannah because he
loved her so much, and because God had not given her children. 6
But her rival wife taunted her cruelly, rubbing it in and never
letting her forget that God had not given her children. 7 This
went on year after year