Mother’s Day
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I’m allot like my mother.
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
And he had two wives: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.
And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb.
And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.
So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.
Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
vs 3. So you have a man name Elkanah who would go to the city yearly as a pilgrimage to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of host in Shiloh.
vs 4 Whenever Elkanah would make a offering he would have to give Peninnah more because of all her sons and daughters.
Peninnah is called Hannah’s “rival.” The Hebrew term (ṣārâ) suggests a woman who is a “troubler.”
So this pilgrimage was a constant reminder of Hannah barrenness.
Year after year the pain would resurface. The curse would resurface.
So this pilgrimage was suppose to be a time of joy and worship. For Hannah it was a time of sorrow and ridicule.
I remember this young lady telling me that she could listen to a curtain Preach because every time he would preach he would yell. And it triggered times when she was yelled at by her dad and verbally abused.
Maybe some of us married couples and when you see other married couples and they have a marriage that you believe you want so it makes you upset every time you see them.
Or maybe someone who is single who has a desire to be married. and seeing someone who is married and they are reminded of there singleness.
A Hebrew man’s future was bound up in him having a son to carry his name, his wife’s inability to conceive a son was regarded as a curse from God.
Also for Israels obedience, God promised the blessing of fertility of human, animal, and plant life in Israel.
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
Conversely the Israelites considered the inability to bear children as a curse.
Sometimes we think because God doesn’t give us the blessing that we want then somehow we are cursed.
It didn’t say if you are barren you are cursed. But this was the mind set of Israel in that day.
Though Hannah was barren God desire is to make her fruitful.
Its the same with us His desire to take us from barreness to fruitfulness. But that only comes from a unilateral invention of God Himself.
We cannot impose or assert our wills to force the hand of God.
You ever been to a church and they tell you to go to your local lamborginni dealership, and run around lamborginni Gallardo that you want and God will give it to you.
This is man attempt to oppose our will onto God.
The object of Hannah’s delight is neither herself—that she has overcome the disgrace of barrenness—nor her son; instead it is the Lord, who is the source of both her son and her happy circumstance.
Robert D. Bergen; Richard D. Phillips
The name “Hannah” means “a woman of grace,” and she did manifest grace in the way she dealt with her barrenness and Peninnah’s attitude and cruel words.
Warren W. Wiersbe
Fellas you ever try to comfort your wife and say words of affirmation but nothing seems to work or stick.
The was Elkanah he’s telling his wife all the affirmations. He giving his wife the latest game but it was completely over her head.
And truthfully she didn’t want to hear it.
You actually have both wives jealous Peninnah was jealous of the double portion that Elkanah gave Hanan and Hanna was jealous about Peninnah fertileness.
Meat, a rarity in the typical Israelite diet of that day, was apportioned to each wife in proportion to the number of children she had produced so that she could share it with her children
The Lord had closed her womb. ?
vs 7 she wept and did not eat. She did not enjoy the double portion.
In spite of her barreness or maybe perhaps Hannah was a woman of faith.
* In fact, Hannah is portrayed as the most pious woman in the Old Testament.
* Here she is shown going up to the Lord’s house; no other woman in the Old Testament is mentioned doing this.
* In addition, Hannah is the only woman shown making and fulfilling a vow to the Lord;
* She is shown avoiding the faults of the first infertile covenant woman by seeking help from Yahweh rather than pursuing crafty schemes (cf. Gen 16:2 ).
Like Sarah
So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.
Or blaming her husband like Rachel
Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!”
* She also avoided the fault of Jephthah, who likewise made a vow that separated him from his child; whereas Jephthah gave his daughter as a burnt offering, Hannah gave her child as a living sacrifice (cf. Rom 12:1).
The characteristics of Hannah
Prayerfulness
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.
Then she made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.”
- She prayed and her prayers where very specific.
*If fact she is also the only woman who is specifically said to pray (Hb. pll; 1:10, 12, 26–27; 2:1);
* her prayer is also among the longest recorded in the Old Testament.
* Furthermore, her prayer includes the most recorded utterances of Yahweh’s name by a woman (eighteen) times. The word Yahweh was a very specific name used for God. The word Elohim was used for many different gods even angels. But Yahweh is used for the true and living God.
The name Yahweh was so powerful Jewish people wouldn’t even utter the name because it was believed to be so holy.
2. Self-denial
1 Samuel 1:27–28 (NKJV)
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.
Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord.” So they worshiped the Lord there.
She lent the child to God. She dedicated the child unto God
Her desire that this child would be set apart for Gods use.
She didn’t set the child aside to brag or mock Penniah but to reveal Gods mercy to many.
3. Thankfulness
4. Industry & Maternal Love
Moreover his mother used to make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.