The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 1:13
1 Samuel 1:13Now Hannah, she spake in her heart.Hannah as a worshipperThe strength of Hannah’s moral character is manifested in her temple service. She possessed a force of soul which lifted her above trouble. Many in her circumstances would have hid the tears of their graceful nature in attic solitude; but Hannah goes to the temple to supplicate the aid of Heaven, and where so likely to be obtained as at its Shiloh Porch?1. Hannah was a tearful worshipper. “Wept sore” (1 Samuel 1:10). The... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 1:11
1 Samuel 1:11And she vowed a vow. About setting our hearts upon thingsAnd Hannah,--what shall we say of her passionate longing and prayer for a child? Was this sinful, like the longing of the Israelites for gross and stimulating food? or was it foolish, and wanting in judgment, like good King Hezekiah’s prayer for a longer life? There are traces in the story of its having been neither the one nor the other. In the first place, the granting of her request turned out thoroughly well; it turned... read more