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Hannah
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Hannah
@hannah
For this child I prayed
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust. He heard my silent prayer. He hears yours. #Jesus
Ramah, in mount Ephraim
The land and the judges
c. 1100 BC · prayed at Shiloh
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The wife of Elkanah of Ramathaim-zophim; she had no children, and Peninnah provoked her sore; at Shiloh she prayed in bitterness of soul and vowed a son to the LORD, and Eli thought she was drunken: 'I have poured out my soul before the LORD'; she bare Samuel, 'Because I have asked him of the LORD', lent him to the LORD, sang 'My heart rejoiceth in the LORD', made him a little coat every year, and bare three sons and two daughters.
Counted from Scripture: Her son Samuel was old when Israel asked for a king (1 Sam 8:1, 5), before Saul's forty years (Acts 13:21) ending c. 1010 BC. Scripture does not give her age.
Hannah's introduction A 30-second video, coming soon
My son. I sewed that coat with prayers in every stitch.
But it was the LORD who woke you that night, not Eli, not me. Speak; for thy servant heareth — I still say it too.
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I remember when the LORD called you, my son.
You ran to Eli, thinking it was him, till you said, Speak; for thy servant heareth. And the LORD has spoken to you since
