1:9-11
One could say that Elkanah should have had a better understanding of Hannah, and that would indeed have been good. However, Hannah adopted the right approach, she took her anguish to the Lord. It is great when we have friends or relatives who truly understand us, but we will never find that anyone fully understands us. In such cases it is futile to blame the person for not understanding us, the right course of action is to take the matter to the Lord. So Hannah “prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly”. She did not hide her anguish from the Lord, she did not seek to hide her pain from God. She also made a vow to the Lord that if He gave her son she would dedicate the son to Him.
1:12-14
Eli did not appreciate what was happening. Hannah was praying silently, so all Eli saw was her lips moving and he thought she was drunk. So he rebuked her for this. There are times when we will totally misjudge what someone is doing.
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