His mother was provoked by Peninnah so that during a incident of distressed prayer, she was taken for a drunk by Eli.
This person quipped to King Agag, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women", before cutting him into pieces. After leading a revival at Mizpah and a defeat of the Philistines, this person set up a stone between Mizpah and Shen and called it Ebenezer. The evilness and perversion of his sons Abijah and Joel led to the ascension of a ruler who would later tear some of this person's cloak at Mount Gilgal. His mother was provoked by Peninnah so that during a incident of distressed prayer, she was taken for a drunk by Eli. The prayer was answered in the birth of, for 10 points, this priest who was summoned by the witch of Endor, heard the voice of God calling him in the night, and anointed Kings Saul and David, all in his namesake books of the Bible.
This person quipped to King Agag, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women", before cutting him into pieces.
Samuel