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Each year Elkanah of Ramathaim-zophim brings his two wives Hannah and Peninnah to worship and sacrifice at the tabernacle in Shiloh — and the barren weeping Hannah pleads silently for a son she will dedicate to the Lord all the days of his life — and the priest Eli mistakes her wordless prayer for drunkenness.
1 Samuel 1 opens with the prophet Samuel's family origin in Ephraim: "Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah... And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh." Hannah's wordless prayer at the tabernacle, the priest Eli's mistaken rebuke, and her vow to dedicate any son to the Lord launch the prophetic ministry that will anoint both Saul and David.
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