🛤️the walk to Shiloh🕯️a quiet prayer🌟a blessing👶baby Samuel👘a little robe
Hannah's story.
The big ideaThe Bible tells how Hannah prayed with all her heart, and how God heard her.
How it works
The Bible tells how Elkanah's family walked to Shiloh every year to pray, to give thanks and to share a happy feast. Hannah had no children, and she longed for a baby.
One year Hannah cried and would not eat. She went quietly to the house of God and prayed for a long time, and her lips moved but no sound came out. Eli the priest thought she must be unwell.
Hannah told Eli she was only very sad and was telling God all her troubles. Eli blessed her and told her to go in peace.
Hannah had a baby boy and named him Samuel. When he was older she took him to Eli, and she sang a song of thanks. Every year she brought him a little robe that she had made.
The story in order.
🧔Elkanah😢Hannah🙍Peninnah👴Eli the priest👦Samuel
The people in the story.
Example 1: Why Eli was wrong at first
Hannah's lips moved, but no sound came out.
Eli was watching, and he thought she must be unwell.
Hannah told him the truth: she was only very sad and was telling God all her troubles.
Example 2: Count the children
Hannah had Samuel, then three more sons and two daughters.
3 + 2 = 5
5 + 1 = 6
So Hannah had 6 children in all.
Example 3: The growing robe
Every year, when the family went up to Shiloh, Hannah brought Samuel a little robe that she had made herself.
Each year the robe was bigger, because Samuel was growing taller.
She hugged him tight, and he told her all he had learned.
Example 4: Put the story in order
First the family walked to Shiloh and Hannah cried at the feast.
Then she prayed, and Eli blessed her.
Later Samuel was born, and Hannah brought him to Eli.
Words to know
Shiloh
The town where the house of God stood.
priest
A man who looks after the house of God.
promise
A serious word to do something you said.
Watch out
Hannah prayed without a sound. Her lips moved, so Eli thought she was unwell.
The family walked to Shiloh. They did not sail or ride.
Samuel stayed with Eli in the house of God. Hannah visited each year with a robe.
A priest looks after the house of God and helps people pray.
Try it
What did Hannah name her baby boy?
Why did Eli think Hannah was unwell?
What did Hannah bring Samuel each year?
How many children did Hannah have in all in the story? 1 + 3 + 2
If something worries you, what can you do, like Hannah?
Answers: 1. Samuel · 2. Her lips moved but no sound came out · 3. A little robe she had made · 4. 6 · 5. Tell someone I trust
Try at homeWith a grown-up, take turns telling something you hope for, quietly, in a prayer or in your own words. Listen to each other.
For grown-upsTake turns telling each other something you hope for, quietly, in a prayer or in your own words, and listen well. The story does not promise that a prayer is answered as asked, so there is no need to say it does.
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